titivate

Example Sentences

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Sharp, salty and/or crunchy are the aims here, to titivate and offset the creamy avo.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2019

Polari Nellyarda, zhoosh the riah, titivate, schlumph your Vera down, and palare that omee for the bevvies because I’ve nanti dinarli.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2016

One in three people in the UK – 20m – are gardeners and they spend £5bn a year at 30,000 garden-related businesses to titivate their flower beds, window boxes, allotments and lawns.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2013

In the monotonous scientific pursuits of Microbe Hunters Paul de Kruif found sensationalism enough to titivate a large public�he demonstrated fascination in the perverse antics of microbes, drama in the stolid heroism of hunters.

From Time Magazine Archive

They said that when he saw the shearers coming he'd say, "Run and titivate yourself, Mary; here comes the shearers!"

From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry