Sentence examples for great envy from inspiring English sources

Anyway, I write you this letter in great envy.

"There are people in London here who look at Beijing with great envy.

The bearded dumb-bell…"Writing has made Ms Rowling rich, and her riches have made her the subject of great envy.

He spoke about the Arabs with great envy — they, he said, knew much better how to keep their honor and their land.

But she also aroused great envy, and her chief rival, Pilar Primo de Rivera, sister of the founder of the Falangists, was particularly influential in seeing that her work was forgotten by history.The most remarkable of the four is the tempestuous Margarita Nelken, a brilliant Jewish intellectual who distinguished herself as an art critic, feminist, polemicist and politician.

In fact, I watch with great envy.

According to Plutarch, Julius Caesar wept because he had not accomplished as much as Alexander at the same age, but Alexander the Great envied Achilles". Why, then, does Arbery refer to Achilles' death as "sacrificial"?

But when you crush a ball the way Mike Napoli did Thursday night at Comerica Park, even the greats envy you.

It was with the Emilia-Romagna outfit that Berardi first broke through as a twinkle-toed teenager and it is with them that he remains, in spite of a goalscoring record that even the greats would envy.

It's a great recipe for envy and unrest.

In the early 1930s, at the height of the great depression, dictator envy was rife.