Example Sentences

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Ecclestone, the world's top ranked ODI bowler, was in her element on the turning surface, flighting the ball teasingly, leaving the cover region vacant and luring batters into fatal drives.

From Barron's • Oct. 11, 2025

Moreover, “Anemone” teasingly delves into a paternal legacy— the price sons pay for inheriting their fathers’ flaws—as it considers the moral thickets of Britain’s late-20th-century history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

The answers are left as teasingly cryptic as the shocking outcome of that nocturnal interaction.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025

One of the tricky parts of a ghost story like “True Detective: Night Country” is the banal, inevitable business of having to explain events that were once teasingly inexplicable.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2024

In fact, Elisha’s moralizing about her profession made her teasingly start calling him “preacher.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock