Example Sentences

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There is only one rational way ahead: The United States must embrace immigrants if it is to remain the vibrant, wealthy society that the rest of the world has envied for so long.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2021

He has envied his brother, neglected his mother, and despised his father, a small-town grocer who joshed his customers while he kept his thumb on the scale.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wrecks of happiness are strewn in every path that the world has envied.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by Lord, John

"I guess that any one who has envied him as often as I have ought to know."

From Mother West Wind "How" Stories by Cady, Harrison

Man has envied the birds since the world began.

From Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)