Example Sentences

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Teasingly, Laura’s grand plan is all left half-explained.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2025

Teasingly, Appel drags out a sequence where Al, assembling a sandwich, struggles to brainstorm his take on “My Sharona” until the audience is hissing “Bologna!” through its teeth.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022

Teasingly and sometimes caustically, his book teems with passages in which he looks with an outsider’s eye, wondering about the weirdness he sees.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2017

Teasingly captioned videos or quizzes rule for a time, then die off as behaviors and algorithms adjust.

From The Verge • Jul. 9, 2015

Teasingly he asked me, “Where is your sack mocoso?”

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez