Example Sentences

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Growing up as the youngest of seven siblings in Bessemer, his older brothers would teasingly bully him, the smallest physically with the worst temper.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

Glass-vitrine walls teasingly appreciable at great distances, even from the grand hall below, house dense, globe-trotting displays of ceramics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

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

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

Swift’s text was teasingly incomplete, so that it was impossible to tell who had emerged victorious.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton