Example Sentences

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“Do you think you’re a hero who can change the world?” he asks tauntingly.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2024

This also fueled a heated personal squabble with Chris Christie, in an early manifestation of the candidates’ deep contempt for this fast-talking newcomer—who, tauntingly, brought up the Christie-Obama “hug” that followed Superstorm Sandy.

From Slate • Aug. 25, 2023

He used a cast of children as his muse to make a dream seem real, tauntingly real, for a little more than two hours.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2022

A tauntingly good hip-hop album, or a rewiring of pop DNA: “Call Me if You Get Lost” has it both ways.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2021

When Odysseus saw that they were safely away, he cried again tauntingly, “Cyclops, Odysseus, wrecker of cities, put out your eye, and do you so tell anyone who asks.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton