tantalize
Example Sentences
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But then, he flashed the tantalizing potential that the Dodgers saw when they signed him before last season.
From Los Angeles Times
And yet the prospect of using origami to improve existing technologies is, for some, tantalizing.
From BBC
A journey into the wilderness of 18th-century Canada starts with a tantalizing mineral sample brought back to an English outpost.
This elusive, tantalizing novel aims for the effect of the raga—to conjure “the sadness, the richness, the pleasure of the waiting and the wandering.”
His precious moments are not memories of an idealized past, nor projections of a tantalizing dream, but interventions in our complex present that reveal beautiful and unsettling layers.
From Los Angeles Times
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