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Example sentences for: taunted

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According to the original form of the tale, before the battle of Agincourt, immortalized in Shakespeare's Henry V, the French taunted the English longbowmen by waving two fingers at them, saying that those fingers (used to pull back the bowstring) could never defeat the mighty French.
(The Wizard angrily to the four, after they returned to him with the Witch's broom and taunted him to keep his promise, if he were indeed really great and powerful.)
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.
It later turned out that the killer had been taunted at school by the older boy because he was gay.)
I heard of several hundred people hiding in a cave that once formed an old marble quarry, being taunted from outside by men firing machine-pistol volleys into the air.