Words similar to tease

Example sentences for: tease

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

That would be OK--I enjoy playing footsie--but she likes to tease me by digging her heel into my bare toes (I usually wear sandals), often when I'm ordering.
Finally, we could tease apart nature and nurture and see whether men and women differed because of how they were brought up as children.
Sophisticated research is required to tease apart the complex interactions between these variables.
The part is all mugging--pulling Harpo-like faces--but Morton turns it into a delicious tease, always seeming on the verge of speech, of saying something naughty or funny or caustic.
They accepted him, though, and liked to tease him mercilessly until he would give in and join in their games.