Example sentences for: taunted

How can you use “taunted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Felsenthal and Katharine both report that Phil assumed Agnes' role as bully and emotional abuser, but only the biographer writes that as Phil lost his mind, he taunted his half-Jewish wife with anti-Semitic slurs.

  • At 1950s-era "Pontius Pilate High" in Corpus Christi, Texas--the town where McNally grew up--Joshua is bullied into playing football and taunted by his peers as a "faggot."

  • USA Today runs a four-column headline--"DIANA'S DRIVER LEGALLY DRUNK"--across its top front, and gives the whole rest of its 1A over to various Di-gressions: not just the drinking and the speeding, but also the funeral plans, a Prince William profile and a detail about the driver it credits to the Times of London , reporting that just before speeding away from the Ritz he taunted photographers by telling them "Catch me if you can."

  • Gore taunted, looking straight at Bradley.

  • In "Rise of the Golf Hooligan," a New York Times op-ed, he regrets the rough treatment dished out to the European team: "spectators taunted them."


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