ENVIOUS in a Sentence

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All the faces turned to Darya Alexandrovna looked to her healthy and happy, making her envious of their enjoyment of life.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENVIOUS
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envious
 a.  showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  You are envious, Biddy, and grudging.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
2  How I was, in a grudging way I have no words for, envious of her grief.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
3  Levin felt envious of this health and mirthfulness; he longed to take part in the expression of this joy of life.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
4  And, ashamed as he was of the feeling, he felt envious.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 21
5  Vronsky defended Mihailov, but at the bottom of his heart he believed it, because in his view a man of a different, lower world would be sure to be envious.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 13
6  All the faces turned to Darya Alexandrovna looked to her healthy and happy, making her envious of their enjoyment of life.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 16
7  When he drove off he waved to Bea; and Carol, lonely at the window above, was envious of their pastoral.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. Sunset.
9  At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  For I was envious of the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Desire nothing for thyself, seek nothing, be not anxious or envious.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
12  Rostov laughed so loud and merrily that Denisov, in his bedroom, felt envious and Natasha could not help joining in.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I
13  A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
14  The stepdaughter once had a pretty apron, which the other fancied so much that she became envious, and told her mother that she must and would have that apron.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In SWEETHEART ROLAND
15  She had almost all the honors of the quadrille, and if she were envious of the Count of San-Felice's daughter, we will not undertake to say that Carmela was not jealous of her.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
Example Sentence:
1  She tried not to appear envious.