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Example sentences for "taunting"

Lexicographically close words:
taught; taughte; tauld; taunt; taunted; tauntingly; taunts; taupe; taureau; taurine
  1. She omitted to mention the fact that company or no company, she would not have missed the opportunity of taunting Donna for a farm.

  2. The papers having been taunting the police about the matter, they'll catch her in the end.

  3. But Pence was prepared, and swerved away from the fence with a taunting laugh, to retreat rapidly down the road towards the advancing throng.

  4. Dora, tartly; then her curiosity got the better of her dislike for Mrs. Vand.

  5. Ingmar sank down, and the man ran off, with a taunting laugh.

  6. The bumblebees came buzzingly up to mock at them, the magpies laughed them to scorn, while the other birds sang taunting ditties.

  7. She did not take any notice of his last taunting words.

  8. There were some who, while taunting France with her cowardice, flung away their arms, and sat down by the roadside, declaring that they would there await the bullets of the troops, and show how Republicans could die.

  9. Rougon, losing his head, took to flight, pursued by those taunting cries, whose bitterness seemed to increase amidst the gloom.

  10. The ball flew wide of its mark, and we could hear a taunting laugh from the fugitive, at his aim.

  11. And fall a victim to the yellow fever in a month after my arrival,' I said, with a taunting smile, for I felt the devil rising within me, and I did not care to suppress it.

  12. But at the church door Ortrud insolently presses in front of Elsa, claiming the right of precedence as her due, and taunting her for marrying a man who has won her by magic arts only, and whose name and origin she does not even know.

  13. Wotan, however, seems in no wise inclined to resent this taunting speech, but warns Alberich of the approach of Mime, accompanied by a youth who knows no fear, and whose keen blade will slay the monster.

  14. This time his shot produced no visible effect, and a taunting cheer from the enemy told that they felt themselves beyond range.

  15. Half a dozen shots replied to the taunting speech; but the retreating object was beyond pistol range before our astonished party had recovered from their surprise at such an act of daring audacity.

  16. Scott, now taunting Levake openly, stepped directly in front of him.

  17. Arnold made no answer and Levake, taunting him to send all the men the railroad had after him, followed Arnold toward the square.

  18. Thus was the fairness of the daughter of Icarius, which might not withhold Ulysses from the arms of Calypso, and of this patrician beauty was Fulvia, whom Antony forgot when the taunting smiles of Cleopatra set his soul on fire.

  19. Drunk with the wine of life, he ran through a grove of scented pines, flanked by thickets of giant azaleas and taunting one onward and upward to where faint silver outlines traced upon the azure sky lured to distant peaks.

  20. But at last they left him alone and gave up taunting him with being a “regular girl,” and what’s more they looked upon it with compassion as a weakness.

  21. He kept taunting me with believing in him, and that was how he made me listen to him.

  22. Meantime, Icarius' daughter, who had placed Her splendid seat opposite, heard distinct 470 Their taunting speeches.

  23. The very spirit of the world is tired Of its own taunting question, ask'd so long, "Where is the promise of your Lord's approach?

  24. Oh could their ancient Incas rise again, How would they take up Israel's taunting strain!

  25. As we rode off, they greeted us, not with the usual gay yell, but with a scornful, taunting laugh, that sounded like the rejoicings of an infernal jubilee.

  26. She bowed to the floor, rose, and gave him one long, fierce, taunting glance.

  27. But you can not go there to do it," was the taunting reply of the Briton.

  28. Far up the road she heard among them taunting laughter and jeers, and she rose quickly.

  29. As he went swiftly up the hill the committee sprang from the bushes with haw-haws and taunting yells.

  30. There seemed to lurk in his mind a sense of injury, which he visited upon her in sarcastic gibes and allusions to the Forest, taunting her with impatience to have done with him and begone to her dearer friends.

  31. They exulted over his downfall, and followed him to the place of exile with the taunting cry, "Where is now thy God?

  32. It has left the track of blood behind it in the glades of the forest--the unbelieving world hounds in remorseless pursuit, and the taunting cry will follow to the grave!

  33. The taunting cry everywhere assails him, "Where is thy God?

  34. Charge was made and counter-charge; the air was thick with missiles, and close at hand the silver bells had their merry sweet chime high over the city of my banishment drowned by the voices taunting and defiant.

  35. Hendrie's hand was on a loaded revolver in his coat pocket, and a mad impulse urged him to silence that virulent, taunting tongue then and there.

  36. Say, Mr. Hendrie," she went on, her tone changing from passionate anger to one of taunting mockery.

  37. The two members were standing near one another outside the bar, when Griswold made taunting allusion to an old "campaign story" of Matthew Lyon's having been sentenced to wear a wooden sword for cowardice in the field.

  38. Rackham, turning to go, had halted to fling back his taunting word.

  39. The garden became unbearable, taunting her with its unknown mysteries, its hidden promise; and she hurried down the weather-stained wooden steps into the park.

  40. And then the Wolf spoke from the doorway in a hoarse whisper, and in the whisper there was a low, taunting laugh.

  41. Came the brutal, taunting laugh again, and the door closed behind the Wolf, and his step died away along the passage, and rang an instant later on the pavement without.

  42. To the sound of that taunting voice, I opened my eyes.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taunting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    banter; bantering; derisive; flippancy; flippant; fooling; grinning; hissing; jeering; joshing; kidding; leering; levity; mockery; mocking; panning; quizzical; railing; raillery; ridicule; ridiculing; roasting; scoffing; scorn; smart; smirking; sneering; taunting; teasing; twitting