Sentence examples for they felt envious from inspiring English sources
Then he asked American and Spanish students, who have only one word for envy, to describe a time they felt envious.
He felt envious, worried and strangely alienated.
Many of us were fans and I felt envious of those who were not.
"I felt envious and wanted one," said Mr. Kim, a dandy to this day.
Kiril felt envious of Alejandro's easy dignity, as if he had a lifetime's experience talking to strangers.
I sat at dinner parties and felt envious of people who had not supported the war, as if whether or not a lot of armchair intellectuals did or did not support a war was what the war was actually about.
The unmistakable wheeze of a sleeping patron is not unheard of at the theater, certainly, but never before have I felt envious of the fellow drifting off to dreamland.
But, gazing out the window of the tour bus on the island, he had felt envious of the locals, of their ability to do whatever was in their nature.
Asked if, in his fifth decade, he ever felt concerned that his peers were passing him by in some way, he responded that he sometimes felt envious of people who had gotten cool new jobs or bought houses.
If you felt envious of the French for their big art controversy of the autumn over the Los Angeleno provocateur Paul McCarthy's "butt plug" sculpture in the classical heart of Paris, here's your chance to be appalled.
