Example sentences for: taunts

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

  • True, Ronald Reagan won on a supply-side platform--but one suspects he would have won on almost any platform, and that the taunts of "voodoo economics" actually cost him some votes.

  • Conclusion: Trying to distinguish harassment from everyday schoolyard taunts is a clumsy but worthwhile process.

  • The manipulative sexpot Angela, who taunts her friend Jane with the idea of seducing her dad, acts chiefly out of a terror of appearing ordinary.

  • It draws sidelong glances and playground taunts, and it may give the adopted child an identity crisis.

  • But the largest group of gay taunts can be classified as the ped- group, all words inspired by pederasty: pederaj, pederash, pederishka, pederin, pederko, pedal, pedalo, petsa, pechurka, pepos, pedos, pepi, pedikir (a pun on pedicure ), peder, and its facetiously French-sounding inversions derpé and depré.


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