Sentence examples for envy something from inspiring English sources
You can't envy something you can't be, can you?
"Cable envy is something that needs to be guarded against," he said.
It reduces the object of envy to something very narrow and masks the full picture of who they are and what their life is like.
If he says that he loves them because they are artless and innocent, or incapable of duplicity, or because of the wholehearted unselfishness of their affection, or because their souls are not tainted by envy, or something like that, beware.
But on a deeper emotional level, the destructive power of envy is something I experienced as a child.
"Congratulations on your awesome new promotion!" Feeling happy for others transforms envy into something much more pleasant.
Opening it was like Christmas, when you know what it is that you're getting but to see it, to feel it, to power it up and gawp at it as if it's some entirely alien technology that the Earth should be down on its knees in envy of: something else entirely.
That can create envy; use something simple by way of a token.
Spiritual envy is something quite strange, but material one is very clear.
I am 70 years old, and others my age envy my having something I am passionate about.
