Sentence examples for envy becomes from inspiring English sources

When you identify the source, envy becomes specific.

Note how the world's best women players, unrestrained by competitive honor or fraternal envy, become starry eyed and practically tongue-tied at the mention of the name.

In a wealthy society, envy quickly becomes a driving force for economic activity.

Onstage, with presence a heavy-metal front man might envy, he became an antihero sex symbol, drawing women's squeals and men's roars of approval.

When "Slumdog Millionaire," which was filmed in India, won an Academy Award for best film this year, it caused a stir in China's film community and raised hopes that China, out of regional rivalry and envy, might become more open to American studios.

The older actress's envy of Eleonora Duse, the greatest European star of Chekhov's time, becomes envy of Meryl Streep.

That feeling of alienation can turn into an envy, and it becomes an issue.

But as we read on about corn husks that double as dolls and smoked-meat-strewed attics that double as playrooms, their envy of Laura and Mary becomes palpable, a sentiment I certainly understand.

PRIUS-ENVY has become epidemic among America's (upwardly) mobile classes.

The best defense against envy is to become the envied.

The unequaled richness of City Ballet's repertory becomes the envy of the world.