Example Sentences

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His tauntings washed over Kingshaw, they sounded babyish, he didn't care at all what Hooper said.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

Antinoüs hath a tongue accustom’d much To tauntings, and promotes them in the rest.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

At many bends of the Sweetwater they paused and made sorties; but the savages fell back, later to close in, sometimes under cover so near that their tauntings could be heard.

From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson

Gerda rose from the foam where she had been playing serenely impervious to the tauntings of Kay.

From Dangerous Ages by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

"Such tauntings are but a childish barter of words."

From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry