teasing

How to use teasing in a sentence

The result is a standout, lyrically bleak novel whose teasing title, “The Dark Remains,” can be taken to mean a few things — none of them good.

Then I suddenly realised she was talking seriously—looking to me for help of some kind—and at once I dropped the teasing attitude.

Tom and Blanche had fallen into teasing tricks, a sort of melancholy play to relieve the tedium.

He has been teasing my parrot in its cage, and has plucked so many of its feathers that it now looks like a beaked rat.

KARI THE ELEPHANTDHAN GOPAL MUKERJI

I came up to the elephant, and seeing what was going on, told the white men to stop teasing him.

KARI THE ELEPHANTDHAN GOPAL MUKERJI

All night the thought crept through my brain like a teasing spider: What can we do to make him stay?

The fact was he was generally pleased with June's environment and, after dinner, he stopped teasing June.

She was learning in school, too, and she was happier there now, for there had been no more open teasing of the new pupil.

This caused a laugh, for Miss Hazeltine was just now the target for all the teasing her young relatives could contrive.

She loved teasing, but this was an old signal used only when Oliver felt that she really had gone far enough.

HAPPY HOUSEBETSEY RIDDLE, FREIFRAU VON HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985