ENVIOUS in a Sentence
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24 example sentences for ENVIOUS, such as:
1. She tried not to appear envious.
2. You are envious, Biddy, and grudging.
3. And, ashamed as he was of the feeling, he felt envious.
4. At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way.
5. Desire nothing for thyself, seek nothing, be not anxious or envious.
2. You are envious, Biddy, and grudging.
3. And, ashamed as he was of the feeling, he felt envious.
4. At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way.
5. Desire nothing for thyself, seek nothing, be not anxious or envious.
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Meanings and Examples of ENVIOUS
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envious
a. showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1 You are envious, Biddy, and grudging.
2 How I was, in a grudging way I have no words for, envious of her grief.
3 Levin felt envious of this health and mirthfulness; he longed to take part in the expression of this joy of life.
4 And, ashamed as he was of the feeling, he felt envious.
5 Vronsky defended Mihailov, but at the bottom of his heart he believed it, because in his view a man of a different, lower world would be sure to be envious.
6 All the faces turned to Darya Alexandrovna looked to her healthy and happy, making her envious of their enjoyment of life.
7 When he drove off he waved to Bea; and Carol, lonely at the window above, was envious of their pastoral.
8 The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.
9 At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way.
10 For I was envious of the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
11 Desire nothing for thyself, seek nothing, be not anxious or envious.
12 Rostov laughed so loud and merrily that Denisov, in his bedroom, felt envious and Natasha could not help joining in.
13 A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing.
14 The stepdaughter once had a pretty apron, which the other fancied so much that she became envious, and told her mother that she must and would have that apron.
15 She had almost all the honors of the quadrille, and if she were envious of the Count of San-Felice's daughter, we will not undertake to say that Carmela was not jealous of her.
Example Sentence:
1 She tried not to appear envious.