Words similar to taunts

Example sentences for: taunts

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

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.
Américo Paredes cites a stanza from a corrido (ballad) the Mexican soldiers sang after the Battle of Puebla (celebrated on Cinco de Mayo) that taunts the vanquished French soldiers with the following words:
The movie, with its alliterative abuse, name-calling, taunts, shouting and yelling, threats, scolding, and nasty sarcasm is much livelier and much scarier for children than the book.
This, she argues, has led these judges to discount the types of employment discrimination--unfair promotion practice, workplace taunts, etc.--the law was originally intended to check.