envy
noun
a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another's advantages, success, possessions, etc.
will envy
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future tenseof envy.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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But on the plus side, the club are currently operating with a model most EFL clubs will envy.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025
He is everywhere, ready with a smile, and possesses peripheral vision any mother of toddlers will envy.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2018
Nor will envy of the nominee — my money’s on federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh — linger long in the hearing room.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2018
As he probes our planet’s youth, three billion years ago, many will envy him.
From Nature ● Feb. 5, 2018
Many a boy who reads these lines will envy Juarez Hoskins, assistant engineer of the Sea Eagle, and will understand his feelings perhaps even better than the writer.
From The Frontier Boys in the Sierras Or, The Lost Mine by Wyn Roosevelt
