Sample Sentences for
tantalize
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    He tried to use the flagging power of his memory to recreate meals, and managed brief, tantalizing fragments: banquets with huge roasted meats; birthday parties with thick-frosted cakes; and lush fruits picked and eaten, sunwarmed and dripping, from trees.  (source)
    tantalizing = making someone excited about getting something
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    Or maybe Zeus was manipulating my brain—allowing me tantalizing glimpses of the truth, then snatching them away, turning my aha!  (source)
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    The news had been tantalizing, but frustrating.  (source)
    tantalizing = exciting that something might happen
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    But I swore I wouldn't tell it and here I am tantalizing you.  (source)
    tantalizing = making someone excited about getting something they cannot get
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    He moves as an animal, and a fury is riding in him, a tantalized search.†  (source)
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    For dangling before her, tantalizingly, what He knew would give her the greatest happiness, then pulling it away.  (source)
    tantalizingly = in a manner that makes someone excited about getting something that they cannot get
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    Adah Price S UNRISE TANTALIZE, evil eyes hypnotize: that is the morning, Congo pink.†  (source)
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    or was some tantalising spook at play, showing her fairy letters where none existed?†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it tantalizing.
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    It did not appear, and Swann tantalised himself with alternate pictures of the approaching moment, as one in which Remi would say to him: "Sir, the lady is there," or as one in which Remi would say to him: "Sir, the lady was not in any of the cafes."†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it tantalized.
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    And this thought it must have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation of his, when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg—"Oh, devilish tantalization of the gods!"†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Rats and mice, and such small gear, had long ago been starved, or had emigrated to better quarters: and, in their stead, appeared gloves, bands, scarfs, hair-pins, and many other little devices, almost as ingenious in their way as rats and mice themselves, for the tantalisation of mankind.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it tantalization.
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    Hester felt herself, in some indistinct and tantalizing manner, estranged from Pearl, as if the child, in her lonely ramble through the forest, had strayed out of the sphere in which she and her mother dwelt together, and was now vainly seeking to return to it.  (source)
    tantalizing = making someone excited about getting something
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    Cristian's brief glimpses of a world filled with knowledge tantalized him.†  (source)
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