Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use envied in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word envied? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
No other profession has been so acidly ridiculed and at the same time so hotly envied as the legal profession.
Their demonstrated skills and competence are envied by other servicemembers.
Men may well have envied the social and economic parasitism of middle-class femininity, despite the Victorians' idealization of home life.
Many men lampooned her for her extravagance, but women, by contrast, envied her.
The people she envied were men, the merchant venturers, the buccaneers of capitalism.
I've always envied people on those TV shows where everyone knows each other.
She secretly envied the maid for her ability to remain so sly and untouched by pain.
So many people envied me, but they didn't realize that I was just a pretty bird in a gilded cage.
What I envied most was that they could write when and what they wanted too.
Modern architects, he writes in his foreword, envied the freedom of those artists.
I've always envied the girls on TV with the nice protective older brothers.
She just envied Sam because of the view of New York from his building's roof deck.
People envied her for her blue-blooded, patrician beauty and her ability to keep her cool under the toughest of situations.
I envied the animals for their absolute lack of pretense and their unwillingness to intellectualize.
Annabelle felt sorry for the pitiful sight a death had caused a girl who used to be attractive and envied.
Moore was admired and envied by 40-year-old women around the world for capturing the heart of an energetic beau 15 years her junior.
Panting, I fleetingly envied a couple being carried on litters like lords, an expensive yet terrifying option.
He couldn't count the amount of times he had envied those slim hands of hers, with their lily-white grace.
I envied how Jake and Noah looked rested while they sat at the breakfast table eating their cereal while I looked like crud.
Shawn went on to say that he always envied the animals of the canine family for having this ability.
Show More Sentences
Examples from Classical Literature
He looks as if he rather envied poor Mr. Byng, and the not shooting him were a manque d'egards towards him.
I did not sleep much, for I was strung too high with expectation, and I envied Blenkiron his now eupeptic slumbers.
A herpetologist might have envied me the hour I spent upon that log in the company of Gabriel the Bambarra.
My head was whirling, but a graven image might have envied me my impassivity.
Zora made a little gesture of contempt which Toto Chupin might have envied.
These men were dressed as their ancestors had dressed in the time of Abraham, and Biddy and I envied them.
All of them adored and envied my hair, because it was so soft and light and golden.
Razumov envied the materialism of the thief and the passion of the incorrigible lover.
He had often, in his bitter moments, envied the bricklayer and the cobbler.
She wondered less, and envied them less, after she had seen them at Cannes.
She envied her father's friend who lay in some catafalque across the square.
Weren't they, after all, to be envied, rooted as they were in their solid simplicity?
If you were envied, why should you sharpen envy, and file up its teeth to an edge?
His very malevolence proceeded from a flaccidity which meanly envied the activities and enthusiasms of other men.
How long the young swells have envied Edgar the unusual and fulgurating brilliancy of his headgear!
If the truth were told, she now envied the meanest of those maidens that security which her lack of beauty had guarantied.
The only people who remain to be envied are our two young men, the shochet's son with the shochet's son-in-law.
Mr. martel was sitting in the arm-chair in an attitude King Lear might have envied.
He is to be envied for his paradisal simplicity, and admired for his gigantic creations.
How she envied their happiness, but she did not feel that she was, or ever could be, a partaker with them.
Show More Sentences
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
6-letter Words Starting With
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024