Sentence examples for enviable from inspiring English sources

The word 'enviable' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when someone has achieved or gained something admirable and desirable. For example, "John's success in his career is enviable; he has achieved a remarkable level of success in a short amount of time."

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enviable

adjective

Arousing or likely to arouse envy.

  • He had achieved many enviable dramatic successes before this time. My Miscellanies by Wilkie Collins

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Perhaps crucially, Watford possess an enviable range of attacking options but Bournemouth, Brentford and Ipswich have been punching above their supposed weights for too many months to be written off.

From the children of the suburbs, one never knows what to expect.We may think of those brought up in communes by impossible radicals, conceptual artists and urban guerrillas as leading the more exciting and enviable lives.

To maintain this enviable position, Britain must remain open to Europe – and to the world.

It's an enviable position, but one she has appeared to achieve on the strength of her feeling and talent for acting – rather than simply luck, looks and connections, but which of course have all played a part.

Here is another handbook (very much inspired by the Sloane Ranger trailblazer) and not just a neat riposte to the rise of loadsamoney flashdom, but an underlining that the nouveaux riches simply didn't have class, didn't have style, while the broke aristocrats effortlessly gloried in both, and made their straitened circumstances almost rather enviable.

"As an industry, we have an enviable health and safety record in the UK and it is standard practice to be meticulous where testing is concerned".

"You are in an enviable position – have fun and make the most of it".

The bespectacled German possesses an enviable CV which also includes stints at Hamburg, Werder Bremen, Stuttgart and Eintracht Frankfurt, but does he know enough about the game in England to keep his new charges in the Premier League?

Nordic Finland may be a well-known haven of progressive social policy, with an enviable living standard, cradle-to-grave welfare and the world's best education system, but there is one social problem the Finns have not yet licked.

After five months of labour – during which Hudson repaired the rust holes on the van floor, then built and installed, using "common materials found in DIY and home shops", a kitchen, a pressurised water supply and extendible bed, and fitted an enviable on-board music system – he crossed the Channel in March 2014.

After six victories in the last eight outings, Slavisa Jokanovic's Watford rank second in the form stakes but, apparently recovered from a recent five-game wobble, Eddie Howe's Bournemouth hold an ace card in the shape of an enviable, potentially significant, +35 goal difference.

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