Example Sentences

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The teacher said they were baiting each other, with the defendant admitting he taunted Harvey in an effort to get him to lose his cool.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

“If anything, we were baiting Biden bettors,” Mason says.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2020

The bit was working and now the cast and other writers were baiting me, daring me to go after certain people.

From Salon • Oct. 20, 2015

But the critics were baiting their prodigy traps.

From Time Magazine Archive

He asked me to decide on the most trivial matters, as if he were baiting me.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan