Example sentences for: taunted

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

  • (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.)

  • It later turned out that the killer had been taunted at school by the older boy because he was gay.)

  • Here on March 5, 1770, British soldiers, taunted by colonists, fired on an angry crowd, killing five, including Crispus Attucks, the first victim, who was black.

  • In the '50s, we taunted the clunky cars of the U.S.S.R. for their farm-wagon squareness; now we drive cool SUVs.

  • 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."


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