Sentence examples for burning envy from inspiring English sources
My enthusiasm turned to burning envy when I got to Korea.
I demolished piles of Sweet Valley High novels – the Wakefield twins were probably my first tween obsessions, the first characters who, with a burning envy, I wanted to be like.
In his autobiography, Abernathy recalled "burning with envy" at King's "learning and confidence," and he immediately saw King as a "man with a special gift from God" (Abernathy, 89).
The settings for the remembered affair, quite appropriate to young love, oscillate between the campus and New York City, where Juliana, yearning for a position with Balanchine and burning with envy of Suzanne Farrell, plies her trade in a second-rate ballet company.
I'd wake up to its alarm and spend an hour scrolling, burning with envy over other people's accomplishments.
He assumes it is "some sort of silly art performance" and joins in, cheerfully burning the books of writers he envies.
Race-based wealth envy was a common trigger for burnings, lynchings and cataclysmic episodes of violence like the Tulsa race riot of 1921, in which a white mob nearly eradicated the prosperous black community of Greenwood.
