flirt

Example Sentences

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The show garnered a massive international audience, and in that respect, flirted with progress.

From Salon

It’s been profoundly disorienting to hear mainstream commentators, including some who identify as liberals, flirting once again with the phrase “regime change,” as if they were late-night texting that seductive bad-boy ex they can’t resist.

From Salon

Some flirted only briefly with Ab Ex ideas before moving on.

From The Wall Street Journal

She was a practiced, phenomenal flirt, “Now, Doctor—be candid!—am I not correct when I say you are an enigma past finding out? You know I am.”

From Literature

An avaricious, envious flirt on the undisguised lookout for something better, she is angry that John wouldn’t use slave labor to build their house.

From Los Angeles Times