Example sentences for: taunts

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • There are some ninety occurrences of name-calling, insults, taunts, threats, self-deprecation, harsh commands, scolding, sarcastic remarks, and other verbal aggression in that film.


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