Example Sentences

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Winter Miller, a playwright and children’s book author based in Brooklyn, taunts her deceivers in the name of getting people to laugh.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

He turned away after silencing the taunts, cupping his ear to The Kop, who were stunned into silence after his sixth Premier League goal versus Liverpool.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

Her dreams propelled Jackson toward college — as did a need to avenge the childhood taunts that echoed in his head.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

“Melania” taunts the viewer and takes glee in the assumption that they can’t do anything about it.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026

I make friends, over time, with the other “girls” who work my shift: Nita, the tattooed twenty-something who taunts us by going around saying brightly, “Have we started making money yet?”

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich