How To Use Teased In A Sentence
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I can't believe people honestly teased you about that.
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‘You look spiffy tonight, Matt,’ I teased him as he ignored Madison's request to wait and joined us in the bathroom.
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Snappers strike viciously when lifted from water or teased and can inflict a serious bite.
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Almost as bad as with the local humans," said Steadiness, the zoologist who taught and teased us mercilessly.
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
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Teased by the gloom, I peered through its sandwich of heaped rings, trinkets and protective glass.
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Lively and exuberant, it teased him to be identified.
Somewhere East of Life
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I teased her as she righted herself, but she only said in contusion: `But I haven't had a drink all day!
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Storm teased her over what he termed her magpie mind, which picked up snippets of information to store for future airing.
The Outrageous Dowager
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Unfortunately, in spite of some progress, many of these kids are still tormented and teased.
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Investigators are sifting through evidence teased from computer software seized at the properties.
Times, Sunday Times
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When carding the teased wool, a card is held in each hand.
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‘Hm… maybe I should reconsider marrying into your family,’ Katrina teased back.
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Graham Stuart tormented and teased Gary Ablett mercilessly throughout, beating the ex-Liverpool defender at will.
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I get teased by all my colleagues for being so particular about the cleanliness of the shop.
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The first just said "condolences" - sent from a friend who has long teased me for defending Jackson in pub arguments.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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The make-up was plastered on and her hair teased and combed to make her look years older.
The Sun
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We teased my uncle about his new lady friend.
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He took a screwdriver and teased out the remaining screws.
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It's not so much antimodernism or the distrust of intellectual elites that Richard Hofstadter deftly teased out of the national DNA forty years ago.
Encomiums, interviews, and phil
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She was teased up to the age of 7 because she used to believe in monsters and mythical beasts.
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When the English girls at the Kensington Academy, where Rachel Esmond had her education, teased and tortured the little American stranger, and laughed at the princified airs which she gave herself from a very early age,
The Virginians
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Some parents fear that their son will be teased if he is not circumcised.
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The gusts picked up the strident calls, braided and unbraided the notes, and rushed the fragments across the bluffs where they teased the larger raven into response.
Raven Speak
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Dell teased us with the Mini 5 aka Streak MID at the CES and now thanks to this teardown from the Vietnamese site, we know few more important details.
Tech Ticker
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She must have gone through hell every day, the way we teased her about her weight.
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He teased her about always wearing bright red lipstick in the desert.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Bet I can beat you back to the hotel’ she teased him before taking off in a run, stopping only long enough to pick up her towel and then continued running back towards their room.
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So far I've teased three clips out, and they're not just fuzzy and crackly, they're very small.
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Not even alicorn-white with pretty blue eyes?" he teased, fading out the checks into a uniform brown.
Elvenborn
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Have you no thought of how your children will be mocked and teased by other children when they're at school?
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A slim Farideh pouts at the lens, her skirt several inches shy of the knee, her black beehive dropping teased curls on her brow while beside her a smooth-necked Hussain seems filled with confidence of the future.
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She teased her long brown hair and put blue eyeliner under her sky blue eyes.
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Teased outside his off-stump, for once his lack of footwork towards the pitch of the ball betrayed him.
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She teased out the knots in her hair.
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‘For being an agent you really need to polish up on your lying skills,’ Nathan teased as he entered the hall.
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We teased her a bit during the quiz but she didn't cotton (geddit!) on until the end.
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‘I saw that you and he got a little cozy in the lobby,’ Chris teased as he sat on her bed.
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Her short blonde hair was teased into a bouffant style, but her eyes were hidden by an elegant scarlet mask.
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‘Collection’ is full of contradictions, though themes can be teased out.
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All this needs to be teased apart and managed sensitively.
Times, Sunday Times
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The perfect complexion, bedroom eyes and Greek statue-like features, coupled with all the right poses, and with a nose for scenting a camera as highly developed as a tiger senses prey, all suggests total femininity, even if his long blonde hair has been teased into a French pleat, and resembles what he calls "granny chic.
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‘I think somebody besides me on this phone line likes Michael,’ I teased, refolding another bunch of clothes from the last drawer.
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Her short blonde hair was teased into a bouffant style, but her eyes were hidden by an elegant scarlet mask.
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Directly to my left, a rectangular plantation almost ready for harvest stretches to the next hollow like a roll of teased Astroturf.
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But we traded the option of blissful ignorance for lucidity with every stone tool knapped, every fire kindled, and with every novel technology teased out of nature.
Must Reading for Christmas
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Kensington Academy, where Rachel Esmond had her education, teased and tortured the little American stranger, and laughed at the princified airs which she gave herself from a very early age, Fanny
The Virginians
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From the day it was realized that they were different from both men and women, transvestites have been constantly singled out and teased endlessly.
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I guess I cried so much thinking that I might get the belt and was teased relentlessly by the other kids that I got off with just a slap on the hand.
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He takes a good ribbing, ie can accept being teased.
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He was probably sitting upright in bed, his untidy brown hair, that I teased never had seen a hair brush before, in a horrifying mess, from all the tosses and turns he made in his sleep.
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When asked for his prediction, John McCain fondly recalled the time he teased James Naismith about his new invention, telling him nobody would care about a game with a bunch of guys running up and down a court trying to put a ball into a vegetable basket.
Obama switches prediction: now says it'll be Celtics in six
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Investigators are sifting through evidence teased from computer software seized at the properties.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clusters of bulbs can be lifted, carefully teased apart and replanted or repotted individually to increase your stock.
The Sun
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Doing so is justifiable cause for being mocked, teased, and otherwise humiliated.
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The stars were out, and a light summer breeze teased my hair and brushed across my face.
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The make-up was plastered on and her hair teased and combed to make her look years older.
The Sun
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‘I'll be your boyfriend when Chase is away,’ Greg teased lightly, nudging me with his elbow.
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Kind-hearted but rough-mannered youths, who loved Merry very much, but teased her sadly about her "fine lady airs," as they called her dainty ways and love of beauty.
Jack And Jill
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The staff, comprised of cute young things of both sexes, wore custom-designed Buonanotte T-shirts by Yso and the girls' hair was teased and crimped to the nth degree.
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Whether you're broke or evergreen/ You're black, white, beige, chola descent," Gaga raps, whether you're "Lebanese or Orient/ Whether life's disabilities left you outcast, bullied or teased/ Rejoice and love yourself today.
Lady Gaga's new gay anthem
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He paused often to consider what he was being told, teased the young woman who was interpreting in sign language for the deaf children, and smiled extravagantly throughout.
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They bullied younger children, they teased girls, they fought boys weaker than themselves.
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During one call, Ggong teased the listener pretending to be KFN's scenarist.
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The end result flat-lines the material leaving the playgoer with a feeling of being aurally teased.
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Usually the first thing we do with a new batch of stock, is dip in a ladle, as we are in too much of a hurry to even drain it, having been teased and tortured with the redolence of chicken for a couple of hours, pour it into cups that already contain home made noodles and hungrily devour the soup.
At My Table
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He was teased since the 4th grade because he liked to play with girls, didn't like sports, wasn't aggressive or assertive -- he was called a sissy, that is where it began.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Standing Up for Our Gay Kids
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It would appear that ‘womb envy’ and male hysteria are no longer latent thematics to be teased out by the psychoanalytically-oriented feminist critic; such envy is the manifest content of the film.
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But you can bet I'll still get teased for having ginger hair.
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Blonde hair that was teased and curled and laced with gems and chains served as a massive crown for this overbearing woman.
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All this needs to be teased apart and managed sensitively.
Times, Sunday Times
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We teased my uncle about his new lady friend.
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She remembers being teased about her "highwater" pants as a kid, but she just can't accept her son's argument that without $100 sneakers, he might be bullied for having uncool shoes.
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn
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Her hair was teased the way they did it about ten years ago.
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I teased him that he was like the pool guy in the movies, who goes around servicing all the bored housewives.
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Kampen teased Hayward that the coach could outjump him.
Underdawgs
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He is teased at his new school for wearing his traditional loincloth, called a dhoti.
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Playing piano or ukulele,McKay teased her band (she called keyboardist Rich Dworsky "a former prison guard who's now a Catholic priest and a GOP hopeful in 2010") and she even dedicated a song to Kitty Carlisle Hart ("I've always had a strange identification with extremely wealthy people") and another one to the late Barbara
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Glee's Heather Morris teased that in the Super Bowl episode there are more high jinks in store for ditzy Brittany, as Sue makes it her mission to shoot the cheerleader out of a cannon.
Seen & Heard: Fox TCA Party
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Her short blonde hair was teased into a bouffant style, but her eyes were hidden by an elegant scarlet mask.
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She then teased this section and smoothed it back to meet the ponytail.
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He only fought with real men who deserved it, not little boys who taunted and teased.
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‘You have to stop minding being teased,’ I said, ‘and no one will tease you.’
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The make-up was plastered on and her hair teased and combed to make her look years older.
The Sun
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In 2003, the art duo's ICA re-enactment of the Cramps' famed Napa State Mental Institute gig, performed with a tribute act and mental health patients, teased ideas of authenticity.
This week's new exhibitions
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A few of the guys did give me some stick, teased me, but, really, I did not mind.
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A woman with her back to him was gazing into a mirror as a hairdresser nervously teased her hair into an elegant chignon.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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She grew up being teased for her plumpness, starved and binged and wept her way through adolescence.
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When he teased me, but in a way that didn't deserve a truly biting retort, I pushed his chest lightly, or dug a finger into his waist.
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‘Whoops, forgot about the slowpoke guys,’ Esmée teased, ‘We'll catch you up, you go ahead and get tickets and such.’
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Once, he teased me in class by doing sexual gestures and whatnot.
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I teased them that I would tell everyone on the late train that we would not even be detraining at Orlando.
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In short, there is a real-life mystery about what transpired at the Synod of Whitby; the full truth still needs to be teased out from the various clues through the eons.
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He teased her about always wearing bright red lipstick in the desert.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also impressive are the portraits of well-fed burghers, such as the 1643 half-length figure of Paulus Verschuur, confident in his stylish hat, crisp collar and voluminous suit; a bare hand, gloves, sheer cuffs, a silken sash, curling hair and alert features are teased into existence with assured, staccato brushstrokes.
Picture-Perfect Rogues' Gallery
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The smells of coffee and frying bacon teased his appetite as he looked around studying the scene.
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The rocking of the rickety, old train and the whoosh and whir of the wheels teased our weary bodies and bleary eyes.
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It was quite orderly to begin with, as the feeder teased the sharks with the frozen bait.
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The womanly power revered in primitive societies was within me, as I teased my hair and pulled up the starched petticoats of the late fifties.
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Milton teased him with a clever low free-kick from outside the area that swished past the wall and out of reach at the near post.
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Chris teased the last few tangles out of his hair.
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I used to hate being teased about my red hair when I was at school.
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None of the people we get on well with are being treated that badly; hassled a bit and teased and mocked, maybe, but not hit or tripped in the corridors.
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Inside the pearly white gates of the heaven in another world, promiscuous women teased men and had many boy friends at the same time.
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She was teased by the other girls and quickly lost her Irish accent, acquiring the plummy tones she now has.
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She stops to rescue a cat being teased by a couple of ruffians.
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Passengers could feel teased by the cheap prices on the website, then duped by the add-on fees.
Times, Sunday Times
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A pack of journalists gently teased the fashion model about swapping Paris for industrial Teesside.
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My father and the other members of his foursome, when they spoke, did so in a telegraphic banter: They teased one another good-naturedly; they improvised nicknames.
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Will he get teased at nursery school?
Stammering in Young Children
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The children teased the new teacher
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The unteased roving is on the left, the teased is on the right.
Spinning soft, fat yarn #1
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Will he get teased at nursery school?
Stammering in Young Children
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I grew up being teased about my toes, which appear to be webbed.
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The make-up was plastered on and her hair teased and combed to make her look years older.
The Sun
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‘So says the English guru,’ Troy teased lightly, and he flashed a sudden winsome smile.
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‘Careful, you don't wanna electrocute us,’ Toni teased, scooching over to him.
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ENGLAND'S batsmen were teased and tormented by a Pakistan bowler playing his first Test since being banned for a misdemeanour.
The Sun
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I used to hate being teased about my red hair when I was at school.
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CHERYL Cole revealed she is "raring" to get back to work on The X Factor - despite being teased by Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh while Dannii Minogue was on maternity leave.
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Other than the fact that I've paid $30 to be teased by this speck of beef you call a filet and three-quarters of my plate is taken up by a cheesy dish that smells suspiciously like a dead horse's yeast-infected cooter ... everything's hunky dory, Ace.
Unclebob Diary Entry
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‘I told you it would work,’ a sing-song voice teased.
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One thing is certain, if campers were being teased or being picked on, this boy is one counselor who would do something about it.
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The figure shows the fibre ruptured, in order to display the sarcolemma; e.p. is the end plate of a nerve (n.v.), and fb. are the fibrillae into which a fibre may be teased.
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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The comic-drama of this man who is teased for being a tight-ass, ‘a self-righteous goody two-shoes,’ feels like the enactment of an old, old moment in the history of mutual human dumbness.
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He teased her about always wearing bright red lipstick in the desert.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm going into middle school soon and I want to look my best and not be teased so much!
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To finish, he styled the hair with a brush and slightly teased the bangs.
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I've been told a long list of things a well-kept pony just must have," Liz teased.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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The children teased the boy because of his stammer
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While it was still wet, I gently teased out the tangled knots in Rosie's hair.
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A friend of ours, a Mexican, returned from the US and met us in cargo shorts, a Hawaiian shirt and untied jogging shoes .... we teased him unmercifully that he had turned into a gringo.
How to "pass" for a Mexican
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Were you teased because of your poor background?
Times, Sunday Times
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She was mercilessly teased by boys and other girls about her physical appearance and called a snob because her father was wealthy.
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After shaping the spirals, he teased them with a comb for height and fullness.
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Most probably he was enuretic as a child, teased small animals and liked to start fires.
Lionel: Why Rush and The Right Are Blameless For The DC Shooting
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Gord teased* "You'll guzzle down a gallon of ale a day for the rest of a long life and never grow fat " you work it off nightly bawdstrot-tlng each willing wench you meet.
Night Arrant
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I teased her mercilessly - what was the point of getting a degree for a life of TV, coffee mornings and school runs?
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While it was still wet, I gently teased out the tangled knots in Rosie's hair.
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Two, my dad blushes like a school girl when I teased him about being able to take out his teeth and give my mom a gummer.
On My Knees @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy
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You'll come out one morning to find a mattress and a pile of builder's rubble in it,' I teased him, only half-joking.
DEAD BEAT
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I used to hate being teased about my red hair when I was at school.
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Lively and exuberant, it teased him to be identified.
Somewhere East of Life
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‘In Kerala, the journey has been a smooth one except on certain occasions when drunkards teased me for the reverse walking,’ he says.
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Delicately, he teased the edge of the razor under the skin, gently peeling it back from the flesh below.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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While it was still wet, I gently teased out the tangled knots in Rosie's hair.
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When he had an erection during sleep, as men did, she teased him unmercifully, suggesting that he had suppressed and unre - quited urges.
Here There Are Monsters
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In the course of the previous discussion that took place with regard to the submissions to the Local Government and Environment Committee, those issues were teased out.
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The comic-drama of this man who is teased for being a tight-ass, ‘a self-righteous goody two-shoes,’ feels like the enactment of an old, old moment in the history of mutual human dumbness.
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It is not surprising to see the mightiest hunter teased because he fears getting too close to a granny whose n|om may track him down and result in an arrow that slices through any pretentiousness he might carry.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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They teased me mercilessly; but I grew to be the tallest and when I was not davening evening services after arriving by the train from school, I was practicing boxing or wrestling with the local gents.
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One thing is certain, if campers were being teased or being picked on, this boy is one counselor who would do something about it.
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But the stress put on the hair during a styling session, from having it pulled, teased, backcombed, brushed, twisted, coloured and curled, and from products that make it shine, look fuller and keep it in place, eventually takes its toll.
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His speculations in this regard, while intriguing, are teased from the silent ether and rely heavily on the fact of her general mendacity.
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City teased and tormented the visitors but to no effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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He then threw on some clothes and teased his hair up to its proper height.
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Rick half-turned to look at the screaming woman, a tarted-up blonde with teased hair and flashing red earrings.
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Winsome, plangent arias are teased out with great sensitivity; the snappier, sassier episodes pass by with a cheeky flourish.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘I told you it would work,’ a sing-song voice teased.
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Her hair was teased in a messy bun on the top of her head.
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She would be teased by mystery: what does a cryopreservation unit look like?
Times, Sunday Times
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Just to make sure I will be the only female pillion rider you will ever have," you teased.
Rain
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He is teased at his new school for wearing his traditional loincloth, called a dhoti.
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When she woke up I kissed and teased her.
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Harley teased while winking receiving a swat in return.
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He was teased about it but nevertheless would fetch up most evenings on my cot, smoking his chillum in companionable silence.
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the flirting man teased the young woman
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In seventh grade we teased each other a lot and finally in eighth grade he asked me out.
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Then perhaps the experience has taught you a lesson, my lord," she teased, poking admonishingly at his chin.
The Outrageous Dowager
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Prior to the release of this album we were teased as a dozen or so acetates of the acid tribal monster ‘It Began In Afrika’ were leaked to the key players.
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It was known now among the companions that Raistlin and Caramon were making a journey themselves-a fact discovered by Kit, who was consumed with curiosity regarding Caramon's unusual circumspectness and who consequently bullied and teased him until he let fall that much.
The Soulforge
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What once might have been a real cow's hide, was now calico, stretched and teased over the ribs and stitched into place.
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My skin had been super-exfoliated, every knot and tension had been teased out of my body.
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Welcome to the Dollhouse in 1995 when she was only eleven years old, playing a character who was cruelly teased by classmates and called "lesbo," among other things.
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‘She's actually a show girl at one of the riverboat casinos on the Red River,’ teased Ian.
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‘Lisa with all the meds you keep shoving down my throat I'm surprised I haven't OD'd,’ he teased.
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Instead of being ragged and teased on all year like I was last year, I decided to bring just a few cassettes that I made over the summer.
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I like laughing while praised by teacher, teased by schoolmate, so much as criticized, I also grin like a Cheshire cat.
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In my part of the country, the oppressive days of late summer are now past, and the first hint of the longed-for winter rains have teased us by speckling the dusty ground.
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She could make a meal of sun-dried fish or a bed in the snow; yet she teased them with tantalizing details of many-course dinners, and caused strange internal dissensions to arise at the mention of various quondam dishes which they had well-nigh forgotten.
An Odyssey of the North
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Often he teased me till my temper went and I stamped and screamed, feeling furiously helpless.
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The lone winds teased the white drifts of snow into the air, reminding me oddly of Fantasia.
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Bringing it up at dinner only made me get teased mercilessly "Is that what you call laziness these days?" but dammnit I cant pretend when I feel like hell.
You can have it all (if you like)
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His friends teased him mercilessly when they found the poem.
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Hair by Kenneth—teased, swirled, backcombed and ringleted.
Underworld
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After always being teased mercilessly about being from Canada, Robin tries to show everyone that she's got what it takes to be a real New York resident on "How I Met Your Mother" (CBS at 8), which has a cameo from the one and only Maury Povich.
TV highlights
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Teacups, a cream pitcher and a sugar bowl teased the teapot about her broken and scarred lid all the time.
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‘No helmet needed here,’ Krystal teased, giving Sid a noogie with her knuckles.
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We both get teased about our hair.
The Sun
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She must have gone through hell every day, the way we teased her about her weight.
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When a single from that first record, Arab Boy, became a hit in Iceland, Björk was teased for being different.
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You are bound to get teased and jeered and sometimes mocked, and you have to learn to cope with that.
Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
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I used to hate being teased about my red hair when I was at school.
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ENGLAND'S batsmen were teased and tormented by a Pakistan bowler playing his first Test since being banned for a misdemeanour.
The Sun
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‘I saw that you and he got a little cozy in the lobby,’ Chris teased as he sat on her bed.
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She could make a meal of sun-dried fish or a bed in the snow; yet she teased them with tantalizing details of many-course dinners, and caused strange internal dissensions to arise at the mention of various quondam dishes which they had well-nigh forgotten.
An Odyssey of the North
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You are bound to get teased and jeered and sometimes mocked, and you have to learn to cope with that.
Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
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She's suppose to be a tomboy and bluestocking with grass in her hair from reading outside,’ he teased, a grin lighting up his sun-bronzed face.
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And colleagues also teased him for still using a superheroes duvet cover he had owned since he was eight.
The Sun
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She laughed heartily, teased Paul about his accent and what she called his bourgeois ideas.
The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)
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You are bound to get teased and jeered and sometimes mocked, and you have to learn to cope with that.
Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
