Definitions
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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
tantalise .
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Examples
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This sushi restaurant tantalises the tastebuds and offers some of the most reasonably priced sushi around.
Sushi anyone? HayleyM 2009
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This sushi restaurant tantalises the tastebuds and offers some of the most reasonably priced sushi around.
Archive 2009-04-01 HayleyM 2009
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This tension about the degree to which comedians are being themselves informs the spoof behind-the-scenes sketches in the French and Saunders and Mitchell and Webb series, where, like Trinny and Susannah, they play out a fictionalised relationship that tantalises as possible fact.
Simon Amstell, Larry David and the rise of the 'sim-com' 2010
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It certainly isn't the reader: we're eavesdropping on these monologues, a fact that both tantalises and implicates us.
Thrillers John O 2010
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Every book I've read has been written with great flair, and with a delight in spinning yarns that tantalises the reader and inspires you to go out and explore.
North Korea is a very odd place Phil Whitehouse 2007
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In other words, Google Book Search tantalises the antedater by showing earlier uses, but makes it awkward if you want to pin down the details.
Archive 2007-11-01 glyn moody 2007
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Every book I've read has been written with great flair, and with a delight in spinning yarns that tantalises the reader and inspires you to go out and explore.
Archive 2007-02-01 Phil Whitehouse 2007
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However the days she comes she inspires, she tantalises and teases me into crafting.
It's Saturday night and full moon ambermoggie 2006
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However the days she comes she inspires, she tantalises and teases me into crafting.
Archive 2006-10-01 ambermoggie 2006
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Bogle at once confides and tantalises; the scandals come without names or details.
Colonial Correspondence: The Letters of George Bogle from Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet, 1770-81 2000
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