How to Use envy in a Sentence

envy

1 of 2 noun

• We watched with envy as the yacht slid past us.
• Their exotic vacations inspired envy in their friends.
• Smart projects like this make the brand the envy of the rest of the industry.
  — Cam Wolf, GQ, 27 Sep. 2017
• Any kid with this scooter will be the envy of the first grade!
  — Maya McDowell, House Beautiful, 25 Jan. 2019
• Australia has been the envy of the world for much of the pandemic.
  — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
• Such is the lenient envy with which age regards the idleness of youth.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2021
• What stands out most his client list, the envy of many other agents.
  — Ronald Blum, The Denver Post, 18 Dec. 2019
• The people are taught their nation is the greatest on earth, an envy of the world.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2018
• Next month, the Spurs will be the envy of the NBA again.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Feb. 2021
• But there’s a lot of favoritism, a lot of jealousy and envy.
  — Andy Frye, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• Your riding in style and will be the envy of commoners who took a cab.
  — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2018
• Boston has been the object of league-wide envy for years now.
  — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• And throughout the years, along with such prestige has come envy.
  — Jim Derry, NOLA.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• Smith sees the sophomore’s quick get-off and strength and quickness and feels a touch of envy.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2020
• But even the dishes served in coach would make today's fliers green with envy.
  — Chris Dwyer, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• Rid yourself of photo-envy and take lessons from a pro.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
• The bright ends stretching out to the heavens is enough to clear up any gloomy fall day, and give us all kinds of hair envy.
  — Kelsi Zimmerman, Allure, 7 Oct. 2018
• Meghan Markle's shoe collection is the envy of many of us.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2020
• Then as now, the goal was to inspire as much envy as possible.
  — Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
• Australia’s pension system shouldn’t be the envy of the world.
  — Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• One of the first rooms showcased, a movie room, is sure to be the envy of many binge-watchers and cinephiles.
  — Danielle Harling, House Beautiful, 8 Jan. 2022
• Find chairs that will refresh the living room and dining sets that will make your guests green with envy.
  — Colin Daniels, Chron, 11 Jan. 2021
• Bilgin’s latest fleet member is sure to spark envy on the high seas.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 July 2023
• These collide with eternal themes: envy, love, the fear of death.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• Becca isn't pleased with the envy that results from what should have been a playful group date.
  — Lisa Bonos, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2018
• The recent posting of her new 'mansion' has me green with envy.
  — Ask Amy, al, 24 May 2019
• With the jewel-like facets, these gold-bar nails could inspire lots of envy!
  — Lori Keong, Marie Claire, 9 June 2017
• But what fragrance both uplifts and fills Somer with envy?
  — Kristin Limoges, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Aug. 2023
• Barack looks up in envy as Donald waves with giant hands.
  — Nell Scovell, HWD, 12 Oct. 2017
• But his last name was Zappa, and that brought enough envy for anybody.
  — Mel Shields, sacbee, 27 Apr. 2017

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envy

2 of 2 verb

• I envy the way you've made so many friends.
• I envy you for your large group of friends.
• The Bruins are the team so many envy around the league.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2020
• Those who had seen the show were envied by those who hadn’t.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• Younger me used to envy people who seemed able to put down deep roots in one place.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2020
• All this won the director the type of appeal any politician would envy.
  — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
• Charlotte Banks lives in a house that just about anyone would envy.
  — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• The Roma means to knit envy out of something more durable than bench racing.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• Part of me misses these late nights—and envies those who still take advantage of them.
  — Lindsey Lanquist, SELF, 14 June 2018
• In a year of panic, envy any creature who estivates in the heat.
  — Christina Olson, Scientific American, 16 June 2021
• For a long, slow moment in his short life, he is envied and feared and powerful.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 23 Jan. 2018
• Research shows that people tend to envy successful takers and look for ways to knock them down a notch.
  — Jeff Rose, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• Its basic message to readers stayed the same: this was a vehicle to envy.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 16 Jan. 2018
• Busch could ride off into the sunset today and have a career most drivers would envy.
  — Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 1 June 2018
• Then there’s the fact that true greatness is so often hated and feared and envied in our society now.
  — Colin Fleming, SI.com, 3 June 2017
• Anyone who did something like this was a person Leila envied and loathed.
  — Susan Choi, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• The humans envy, worship, and adore us, live through fantasies of being us.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• Plenty of other businesses have long envied them for it.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• Good fiction can raise questions about the past in a way that historians can only envy.
  — Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
• At the same time, stay-at-home moms are envied at least as often as they are condescended to.
  — Lyman Stone, Vox, 11 May 2018
• America is envied for having two, friendly ones, and vast oceans to each side.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Of course, Facebook has margins that many of its big-tech peers can only envy.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2020
• The artists range in size, age and backgrounds, but they are dressed in works of their own creation showing details even the devil can envy.
  — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Trump seems to relate easily to undemocratic rulers and even to envy them.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 25 June 2020
• Apart from dinner, the noodles pack well for lunch, too — my kids’ friends always envy it!
  — Amisha Gurbani, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2023
• So pick the type of rum you like best, break out the shaker, and get ready to mix a rum drink even Jack Sparrow would envy.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 10 Aug. 2023
• How can someone with a career most people envy possible be so stressed?
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 2 June 2021
• No one would envy a Holocaust refugee huddled over a loaf of stale bread, except for a refugee without one.
  — John Leland, Health.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Americans, though, as a rule don’t envy what others have.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
• And in the most general terms, his healthy players, still a group most coaches would envy, will have to function more as a team.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 8 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024