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Example sentences for "tantalizingly"

Lexicographically close words:
tantalised; tantalising; tantalize; tantalized; tantalizing; tantalum; tantam; tantamount; tantara; tantas
  1. Then, Sir, in the midst of her innocent frolic and at the very moment when I was on the point of snatching the kiss which she had so tantalizingly denied me, we heard the opening and closing of the front door.

  2. I had left him snoring and strapped to the chair-bedstead, and when I opened the office door I was marvelling in my mind whether I could really bear to see him dying slowly of starvation with that savoury pie tantalizingly under his nose.

  3. Our knowledge of the life at Ledstone is tantalizingly incomplete because every one who wrote about Lady Elizabeth took at once an exalted tone, and generalized his picture into abstractions.

  4. From mediƦval poems and romances also come glimpses, tantalizingly brief and casual, to be sure, yet glimpses indicative of a tendency to count learning as one of the possible charms of a heroine.

  5. Though tantalizingly close, the aggressor and all his forces were just out of range, and they knew it.

  6. Paul, awake to the possibilities of the occasion, did his best to draw Marcia into conversation, but she was tantalizingly unresponsive.

  7. Marcia looked back tantalizingly a moment, and then, after an inquiring glance about the room as if she were searching to recall it, she dropped her lids and pronounced it with her eyes on the floor.

  8. They had cried tauntingly to him as they went by, and the laughing, loose-haired girls had beckoned tantalizingly with their hands.

  9. Her impassive manner was tantalizingly irritating to him as he laid under tribute every resource of his mind and heart to overturn her decision.

  10. It is tantalizingly uncertain to them whether the bill will become a law; for there are many incidental questions and considerations which complicate the issue here at Washington.

  11. But in spite of the confusion caused by such a multiplicity of menials, I one day noticed an undergardener whose face was tantalizingly familiar.

  12. Grass as a raw material for food concentrates, a design still tantalizingly just beyond the reach of our researchworkers, might be realized.


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