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Example sentences for: teasing

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Of course the teasing has not abated, and the weight of my imaginary dunce cap is giving me a headache.
To defend yourself against the teasing friends and to show that you, too, can see the humor, Prudie offers a fun Latin saying you might share with your buddies: "Dumbassus!
With an unleashed passion that took her breath away, he suddenly grabbed, through her sheer dress, the firm yet pliant flesh of her buttocks, causing Monica to shiver with excitement, and then urgently kissed her, his tongue teasing hers, Lewinsky stated to the grand jury.
Such an approach goes to the heart of the question of the processes underlying the latitudinal gradient in species richness, and could go a considerable way to teasing apart the importance of historical, ecological, and null explanations, and identifying the mechanisms that underlie them.
There is a long amiable letter to the young Lafayette in 1779, in which Washington, in a giddy mood, drifts into a reverie about competing for Lafayette's young wife with Lafayette himself--a funny bit of teasing, followed abruptly by a rueful reassurance, worthy of Stendhal himself, that "amidst all the wonders recorded in holy writ no instance can be produced where a Woman from real inclination has preferred an old man."