tantalizing

Example Sentences

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For her, there’s still something tantalizing about topping a mixed-genre bill before an audience that may not have heard her music at all.

From Los Angeles Times

For some lucky fans, podcasters and critics, the show sends envelopes — or rather, postcards— giving tantalizing clues about each week's episode.

From Salon

It was a tantalizing clue that mitochondrial damage might play a role in the disease.

From Science Magazine

After six years of archaeological detective work that has provided a tantalizing glimpse of Roman Britain, Frank Giecco, the technical director of the Carlisle project, believes that he and his team have solved the mystery.

From New York Times

That’s certainly true of “Words in Air,” the ferociously beautiful collected letters of the far-flung poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, which Ruhl refashioned into her tantalizing 2012 play, “Dear Elizabeth.”

From New York Times