Example Sentences

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"It's exhilarating. It is like driving a car under an avalanche, but you are taunting the avalanche rather than trying to get away from it."

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2023

Sensing the guards’ insecurity, the prisoners are taunting officers and even testing them to see if they can be bribed, union leaders and staff members say.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2019

Maybe the Mariners are taunting Poseidon, but let’s be honest: They don’t have much to lose.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2017

Everywhere I look, letters are taunting me, letters on signs and in ads and newspapers and magazines, and still my eyes can’t see the secrets.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

Down, down, Ellen, my little one, Climbing so tenderly up to my knee; Why should you add to the thoughts that are taunting me, Dreams of your mother's arms clinging to me?

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss