tantalizing
IPA: tˈæntʌɫaɪzɪŋ
noun
- teasing temptation
adjective
- Teasing; tempting, especially that which is beyond reach.
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Examples of "tantalizing" in Sentences
- Ooooo who doesn't want to be called a tantalizing treat by Miss Snark!
- I should have known: I'm using the word tantalizing in all seriousness.
- NASA says it has made what it terms a tantalizing discovery about the planet Mars.
- I smiled, shrugged my shoulders in tantalizing repetition of my former action upon a like occasion and then answered brusquely:
- Don Crutchfield is a window-peeping kid private-eye within tantalizing reach of right-wing assassins, left-wing revolutionaries and the power-mongers of an incendiary era.
- A possible connection to Arnondusmatijs, though tantalizing, is probably coincidence, since Elandsfontein was a common name, given to at least eight other farms in addition to Kok's (L. Guelke RLR data). back
- As such, it is accorded special procedural shortcuts: it requires only a simple majority vote in both chambers of Congress, and, tantalizing from the administration’s standpoint, Senate rules permit just twenty hours of debate, so the bill can’t be filibustered.
- They only served to recall the tantalizing, broken bits that the records give of the picturesque life that was here -- of colonial pomp and savage dignity, of London trade and Indian barter, of English games and merriment, of colonial trials and tragedies: all this of which we know, yet know so little.
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