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How to use envious in a sentence

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He excels at accents, impersonations, double-talk, vocal sound effects, mime, and extruded flutter-tonguing to make flutists envious.
By our very nature, we are selfish, jealous, envious, stricken with strife, and sometimes downright rebellious.
It may be that they are just envious of our arboreal and hunting skills, our nimbleness and adaptability, and our ability to see in the dark.
As she walked away, talking quietly to her husband, I couldn't help but feel a bit envious.
The ability of enzymes, at low concentrations, to catalyze specific reactions is enough to make any chemist envious.
Architects of the northern hemisphere are envious of the relative cheapness of Australian hardwood.
All the time he is speaking, he is casting envious glances in the direction of the water, where his clubmates are making a splash.
Her pitiful attempts at music making leave her envious of those with perfect pitch.
The film is joyously overpopulated with old biddies envious of Shen in both her old and young edition.
This echo from long ago makes me envious of the pinpoint accuracy with which Reston's paper was delivered.
I tried not to be envious, but I couldn't help telling him about how I had a cotton rat once and a jaybird for a little while.
He was rash, arrogant and obstinate, contentious, envious and malicious, covetous and corrupt.
Islanders do not openly admire the possessions of others because it suggests that one is envious and covetous.
We will then walk past the envious eyes of the city to my crib, where we will get down all night long.
And just to rub salt into the wounds of those envious of her, previous to joining Irish Distillers she was on the tasting panel at Guinness.
My long, long wait to get into print is bound to make me a little envious, isn't it?
With its pristine white walls and hardwood floors, I was very envious of him and his place.
I feel envious when I see women my own age who are plump, grey-haired and wear spectacles.
He still had the women swooning, the men in the audience casting envious glances and the youngsters in awe.
The envious and ungrateful do not really want to know the truth, since it would disturb their hatreds.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Miss clapperclaw says he acted pretty well, and that I only joke about him because I am envious, and wanted to act a part myself.
I thought they were envious and disliked you because you did things in your own way.
It has been in no busy, old-maidish, envious spirit that I have watched these affairs.
It was Clifton, who was inclined to be superstitious and envious at the same time.
But the Incorruptible, ever envious and jealous, would not allow him to exult too soon.
The dark crept swiftly up the slopes as if envious of the ruby crown set on Apo's forehead by the abdicating sun.
They were at first envious of his reputability, and that pleased him while it lasted.
Ever the pathologically envious, the citizens of cee bathed in common misery.
I am now quite envious of the accuracy of my lobbing in those days.
Your brilliant colors are fast fading now, and the envious moths have gnawed your silken threads.
But, always, the envious cloud strives to gather again across the streak of celestial azure.
Momus, however, being very envious of the handicraft of each, found fault with all.
And she began already to be envious of Louise's unobtained maid.
The other's tone was delightfully envious of Uriah's good fortune.
It was Clifton, the sailor, a superstitious and envious man.
Now the king had a grand-vizir who was avaricious, and envious, and a very bad man.
But envious people are whispering that you are afraid of the part.
Narrow-minded mediocrity, envious of my success in my profession, calls me a Swindler.
The envious, nor the prudish, stigmatized him as a lady-killer.
So the envious neighbour went home weeping, with two wens instead of one.
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