envy
noun
a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another's advantages, success, possessions, etc.
were envying
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past progressiveof envy.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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But what I wanted to explain to you is that you were envying what you thought were my circumstances.
From The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory by Margaret Vandercook
People, as he knew very well even now, were envying him his companion.
From Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo by Will Grefé
Curiously enough, at the very moment that the gentle victim of this plot was drooping like a cut flower, Mesdemoiselles Massin, Dionis, and Cremiere were envying her lot.
From Ursula by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
But while thousands were envying his lot, and hundreds aspiring to share it, what indeed was the condition of our hero?
From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Sabine was aware that other women were envying her for the attention showered upon her by this much sought after man.
From The Man and the Moment by Elinor Glyn
