Sentence examples for envy for a from inspiring English sources

– let us envy, for a moment, the simplicity of life stateside.

"This is the first time I've had apartment envy for a place even smaller than my own," one of them whispered.

I look up some old notes about envy for a novel that won't get written – it is a great subject but it eats itself up, somehow.

"I don't envy for a second the guy who had to make the decision and ultimately pull the trigger on this move - or the manager who had to deliver the news," he said in an e-mail.

Facebook, which has had Twitter envy for a while, has managed to build trending-news features that often bring a richer experience to learning about news and other events.

Do you have project envy for a colleague's work?

The other people will be like, 'Hello?' Then they say, 'I guess he really is a jeans guy".' Woven up in this appreciation of old clothes is not only an envy for an older way of life but also a nostalgia for hard, damaging work.

Liberals have had Scalia envy for nearly a quarter-century, only to be let down.

But behind the play I sense an envy for the certainties of an older generation.

When I entered perimenopause, I started to envy them for a different reason -- those brats had no trouble sleeping!

After 9/11, this gap in the résumés of intellectuals gave them both a sense of inadequacy — an outbreak of envy for the Greatest Generation — and a compensatory tendency to inflate the drama of the war on terror and their own role in it.