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:

Too many modern artists have a penchant for leaning over backwards to tease critics, but forget all about I'homme moyen sensuel who, more often than not, likes his pictures in comics.
[Oh, Philip, you're such a tease!]
“At the end, if the atlas has a big impact, it will be in providing the precise coordinates for those people to tease apart what specific DNA elements drive expression within regions or structures.”
The sensuality of "To Earthward" is acted out by its reaching, lingering, abrupt, or stretched sentences as they tease and cavort with rhyme and line ending.
Lee counts on our basic familiarity with Woolf's story, and this frees her up to tease it into all kinds of subtle themes in much the same way you or I might retrospectively organize our lives under such motley headings as "Life Under Reagan" or "The Period When I Was Especially Close to Jim."