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Example sentences for "tantalise"

Lexicographically close words:
tans; tansy; tant; tanta; tantae; tantalised; tantalising; tantalize; tantalized; tantalizing
  1. For, partly to tantalise her, as lovers will, and partly because it charmed me to hear her use my name, I would not turn at once.

  2. Yet even then, whispering on his knees by the dying man, the knave was thinking, I felt sure, of me, glorying at once in his immunity and the power it gave him to tantalise me without fear.

  3. You begin by being heavenly to people--and then you tantalise them.

  4. The other Beaconsfield story is said to be unprintable, then why tantalise us?

  5. Of course the deer or antelopes sprang out of the shrubbery or scoured across the plain only to tantalise them.

  6. Myra did not give him another opportunity to talk to her alone during the rest of the evening, but she contrived to tantalise and puzzle him further, nevertheless.

  7. There are hints scattered through his poems that startlingly supplement the vague clues which now tantalise and baffle as we trace the story of Antinous in Hadrian's villa.

  8. I ask you of what good to tantalise me with impossible suggestions?


  9. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tantalise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.