Example Sentences

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Not only is taunting still against football’s laws of the land; both the professional and college games have in effect made it a megarule for this year.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2021

On first viewing, it appears to be a straightforward scene in which Will is taunting the police officer who has detained him, before being outsmarted by her coffee-mug/DNA trick.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2019

He is taunting us, daring us to do nothing.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2018

He is taunting the women in the audience as much as any torch singer ever taunted a man.

From Time Magazine Archive

In another, John Bull, having waded across the water, is taunting little Boney, whose head just shows above the wall of his fortress: If you mean to invade us, why make such a rout?

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber