Sentence examples for almost envious from inspiring English sources

I left Antigua almost envious that they would be investing with him.

Tough and remote though this world is, I feel almost envious.

I italicize the sentences because they contradict Mishra's suggestion that I sounded "almost envious" of my colleagues' suffering.

"Some of the younger teachers were almost envious — they came up and said, how did you get this job?

Ensconced in the Berlin library, with his family and friends nearby, Auerbach seemed almost envious of the poet, who began the "Commedia" after being exiled from Florence.

Rhymed couplets drive headlong: That almost envious sexual tension which Rubbing at made the greater, like an itch, An itch to steal or otherwise possess The brilliant restive charm, the boyishness.

He almost managed to sound envious.

Founded exactly 25 years ago, when pea shoots and fresh basil were not even gleams in the most adventurous chef's eye, the Greenmarket has grown into a showplace of variety and perfection that would almost make a Parisian envious.

Reading the documents, it's almost difficult not to be envious at the level of luxury the Royal College of Defence Studies has indulged in, and to wonder whether it's really appropriate.

So when Berkman talks these days with Pettitte, who is almost 39, he is happy for him, but also envious.

Envious people talk with others about you.