Example Sentences

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Back then, Ohtani’s 100-mph fastball and wicked off-speed repertoire had tantalized evaluators.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

The gift that he gave to aspiring Black designers was the ability to see themselves succeeding within a fashion system that had tantalized folks for generations.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2021

One released cable in particular had tantalized and galled Tchobanov and Yordanov: It was a 2005 briefing by U.S.

From Slate • Sep. 28, 2012

Not “King Lear,” which had tantalized Verdi for years.

From New York Times • May 9, 2011

This was a bird whose long, deliberate notes, sounding like the above words, had tantalized me from the day of my arrival.

From Upon The Tree-Tops by Miller, Olive Thorne