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I have to walk past the bakery with its tantalizing aromas.tantalizing = making someone excited about getting something -- especially something they can't get
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The previews are tantalizing.tantalizing = making someone excited about getting something
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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)
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The news had been tantalizing, but frustrating. (source)tantalizing = exciting that something might happen
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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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Maybe Da Vinci's plethora of tantalizing clues was nothing but an empty promise left behind to frustrate the curious and bring a smirk to the face of his knowing Mona Lisa. (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)tantalizing = making someone excited about getting something
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HE WOKE ONE MORNING tantalized by an idea: if he could catch the orchard trees motionless for one second—for half of one second—if they stood wholly at rest for the briefest moment—then none of it would have happened.† (source)tantalized = made someone excited about getting something
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Kitty pauses tantalizingly.† (source)tantalizingly = in a manner that makes someone excited about getting something
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The dense brown forest on either side never seemed to vary, and ahead there was only a new bend in the river to tantalize her. (source)tantalize = make excited about something that is out of reach
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It was not as if he were tantalising her.† (source)tantalising = making someone excited about getting somethingunconventional 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)tantalised = made someone excited about getting somethingunconventional 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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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)tantalized = made someone excited about getting something
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