Sentence examples for being envied from inspiring English sources

Amber has been dieting since she was 10, never considering that she might be in the enviable position of being envied.

Nicholas does not feel envy himself, but he is secretly addicted to the dark thrill of being envied by the poor saps who come to his "retreat".

"There are the pleasures of being envied and the pleasures of being feared and the pleasures of looking down on a sea of new possessions but of all the pleasures," he writes, "More is the only thing that works".

I remember being a guest of Brasenose College Oxfordrd's wealthiest — and being envied because I had been invited to stay in the master's guest quarters, only to find that stepping into the guest quarters was like stepping into a Surrealist painting, because the floor sloped in one direction and the two narrow beds in two other directions.

The situation is loaded with all the irony of classic Canadian comedy: at a time when any clear-thinking Canadian is – for perhaps the first time ever – envying the United States for its political leadership, it seems that Canada is finally being envied for its economic strength.

Being pitied is horrible and being envied is dangerous - people want what you've got.' But a friendship is a relationship between people who see each other as equals - the rest of the world might not, but that's how they see it".

They are to be envied.

Their plight was not to be envied.

Some of it is envied abroad.

Maybe that's what is envied.

For Jewry to be envied: that is a change indeed.