Example sentences for: teasing

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

  • Rather, identifying or pointing out agringado behavior tends to be done by family or peer group members, who use teasing, joking, and narrating exemplary anecdotes characteristic of folkloric behavior.

  • According to Professor Spevack, the word hint has no connotation of invitation or covert suggestion: it simply means cue or suggestion; but should not be construed in the modern sense of innuendo, or sly, or teasing, which it came to mean by the end of the 18th century.

  • In a flash McCain is off, wisecracking, talking seriously about his campaign and his life, engaging in badinage with aides and teasing his good-natured spouse, who sits a couple of seats away, trying to talk to their daughter back home in Arizona about her lacrosse game on a cell phone.

  • Who else would tune his ear so finely for traces of an emerging national consciousness, while teasing out the finer points of its economic, social, and moral awareness?

  • "Instead of a teasing chute we'd have some sort of a riding bronco bull, a leather mare.


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