How To Use Teasing In A Sentence

But it is worthwhile teasing this apart a little, unbinding the different aspects of rhetorics lumped together in one component and separating out the semiotic layering (i.e. the use of metaphor and metonym) stuck in with the second. On the Sublime
A stomach-teasing aroma of stewed food was in the air, and the thrumming of African bass guitar wafted through the open window.
Also, if Shilpa is subjected to more teasing from Jade's crew, she may well go postal and slash all the Celebrity Big Brother housemates' throats open with a breadknife. Big Brother Celebrity Hijack Betting Odds: Double Eviction, Emilia Out?
Now I, "says the saucy piece, teasing my lips with hers," have true lovers, because I delight to give pleasure as well as to take it - especially with my English bahadur. Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
Immediately Drake ran over to the group, thinking that the men were laughing and teasing her.

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There is also hassling and teasing and good-natured joshing that to an adult looks like vicious bullying but to a child is something different.
She strummed for a while, glanced at Betsy with a teasing smile and began to sing. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
Laurie put the small box down on a flat rock and teasingly batted Gil's hand away as he knelt down and tried to reach inside for a sandwich.
He laughed at the looks directed his way for the teasing, then went upstairs.
And another thing too - when a malaise is as commonplace as 'street harassment/eve teasing' is, we become somewhat indifferent to it. Archive 2006-03-01
feeling nettled from the constant teasing
Chris takes great delight in teasing his sister.
On the school bus, though, Nina and Zina chafe under the teasing and finger-pointing about their foreign accents and clothes.
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Interactive behaviors include quiet affiliation or 'tending,' approaching and retreating, olfactory investigation of urine and feces, flehmen response, and the precopulatory teasing sequence of mares in estrus," says McDonnell. TheHorse.com News
FOR years, he has delighted in teasing his older brother about his hair loss. Times, Sunday Times
Never mind, there are plenty of cabins and corridors for me to explore, while teasing the ever-smiling tompot blennies and looking for conger eels.
I'm trying to bring him up properly - teasing him out of his babyishness, and making him stand on his own feet. Five Go To Billycock Hill
Teasing is awesome, and it must be done in the name of liberating all hearts to feel the less trivial, more outrageous love. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Car companies are always teasing us with these hybrids. Times, Sunday Times
The proud dad said his son dealt with the leg-pulling from friends and teasing ‘in a really remarkable way’ with a maturity beyond his years.
Teasing and light flirtation played a large role in their friendship, but neither wanted anything beyond that.
Adding to Penguin's woebegone mental state, the guards and inmates have been continuously teasing him about his tattoo.
When not teasing her brother, she loves to say rhyming phrases: lipper zipper, yipes stripes and ooey-gooey are examples. BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
Even with her vegetation obsession, she was unyielding and did not back down from ridicule or teasing.
Men started to sport tight black leather pants and teasing their hair to incredible sizes.
Through flashbacks, reminiscences and circuitous conversations, the questions echo and re-echo, teasingly existential, never quite igniting. Times, Sunday Times
It seemed to be teasing her, laughing at her, and she resented it.
The first five were friends from school teasing him in fun or scorning him with contempt.
The point of the needle darts back and forth, teasing the weave of the fine muslin, mull or cotton.
She hangs out in the 'concha' where the guys all hang after work, shoots hoops, drinks beer and seems to deal with the BS and teasing thrown around. Gay life in Mexico
They can be taken on a variety of plugs, softbaits and with the long wand on a fly, after teasing with a surface popper or the like; but the key to the rooster's soul is livebait.
My eyes are narrowed in annoyance, his are wide with teasing.
Your teasing of the new typist has got beyond a joke and I advise you to stop it.
My vote for the most untranslatable word would go to nyakaa, a Bengali word that could mean coy, or teasing, or bashful, or suggests fake niceness or phoney innocence.
But teasing from team-mates is as much a backhanded plaudit as jeers from opposition supporters, which is why both the ribbing and the heckling have been gathering momentum the older this season gets.
The difference in the weight of the whorl, the degree of teasing and the skill of the spinner dictated the quality of the thread.
The first five were friends from school teasing him in fun or scorning him with contempt.
Her voice was definitely teasing this time, as she pulled a tube of plum-colored lipstick out of her purse.
I was only teasing, I didn't mean to upset you.
She tolerated the teasing, until the fourth grade.
One extra wrinkle is that some loan officers are good at teasing out the details of a borrower's credit history and finding those that have bad pasts but good futures. Subprime Mortgage Loans, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Always clowning around, teasing girls, and getting into scraps with others, he's heading for self-destruction.
My mom too, had experienced days of incessant teasing by unmerciful young friends.
Derec shuddered at the idea of untrained people teasing through the tatters of a positronic brain. Mirage
His teasing is getting beyond a joke.
The teacher has a role in encouraging the pupil to use the aid and in reducing teasing by other pupils.
This is a style of wheat beer that I especially enjoy, with its teasing counterpoint of tartness and chocolate-malt sweetness.
You're good at flirting and teasing, and can be a real sweet talker.
After reaching over and playfully slugging Sandy's arm, Carla remarked ‘I know it's part of your personality, but sometimes I get tired of your teasing.’
Yesterday I told myself that I needed to stop teasing Kevin Keith about his verbose comments.
Vos's approach is to go through the Questions and Answers of the catechism in sections, teasing out the theological and practical truths contained in the answers.
It took five more years, a label change to Atlantic, and the teasingly sapphic hit ‘I Kissed a Girl’ before the Denver-raised New York resident began to set the record straight.
However, please forgive my teasing, for I am in an unconquerably joyous mood.
Chris takes great delight in teasing his sister.
I grew up in France and delighted in teasing my English Dad by making him say millefeuille, grenouille and chapeau pointu! Boss
the parody was just a form of teasing
‘This spinning wheel is a little darling,’ she added, deftly teasing out a skein of deep bluey green yarn - a luxury mixture of mohair, merino and silk.
With her serene smiles, delicate shimmies, and fluttering fan, she cast a teasing spell of seduction.
The younger girl wondered if Sanura was baiting her, teasing her like she always did, or if she knew what she was really saying to Kira.
He was teasing in his answers to some questions, at times startlingly blunt in response to others.
With the rabbi he maintained an armed truce which manifested itself in a kind of jocose teasing that occasionally developed an unpleasant edge. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry
A long-legged lad, of about thirteen, with a brog or awl was teasing out the end of a flambeau in preparation to light it for some purpose not to be guessed at, and a servant lass, pock-marked, with one eye on the pot and the other up the lum, as we say of a glee or cast, made a storm of lamentation, crying in John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
I thought she was teasing, playing the innocent, but looking back,(Sentencedict) I'm not so sure.
There were tales of how some of the men were held captive, stuck in boxes with holes in their sides, Fralgon offspring teasing with their clumsy pincers. FOOD ON THE TABLE • by Anitha Murthy
Mabs and Tashie's contribution seemed to consist of amiably teasing Nigel and Henry.
I made a jest about the wretched bird, teasing Carra, like, and saying it was a sorcerer, most like. A TIME OF WAR
In a single song, he can employ sudden bursts of falsetto or a teasing growl.
Hidden Springs, the smell of sage, a horse and"---he gave Holly a teasing sideways look---" a rumpled munchkin watching me with gold eyes. DESERT RAIN
For example, the utterance ‘Nice shirt’ between two friends will have one meaning in the chatting frame as opposed to the teasing frame.
The bar tender was very funny, teasing me when I ordered a white wine spritzer instead of the Scotch he was trying to persuade everyone to imbibe.
Interviewees reported that shy students were more vulnerable to teasing.
The destroyer 'eld' er fire and come hup close, sir, to 'ave fun teasing us. Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers
Do people not see Jackson's teasing yet reverential allusion to the reknowned 15th-century "Salting Madonna" by Robert Campin, the Master of Flemalle? posted by Eric 4: 07 PM | IsThatLegal?
Car companies are always teasing us with these hybrids. Times, Sunday Times
The newer is the hottest soft porn glossy, featuring curvy breasts, teasing hard nipples, slappable ass, as well as some diversionary violence, chromy car stuff, and pictures of food that other people can sell you if you are hungry. Archive 2007-10-01
He laughed, teasing me, and I watched helplessly as the last drop of milk dribbled into his cereal bowl.
The staff were wonderful, friendly, approachable, the porters made me laugh and were teasing me lots on the way to the theatre.
Â I know they are teasing the Orton / Punk feud, so why not have the title involved there? PWTorch.com
This couple, which is typical of our long-term couples, are real pros at being married and at using positive affect - like humor and gentle teasing - to de-escalate conflict.
A teasing cross from De Rossi almost - almost - gives Toni his first tap-in of the tournament, but Kuffour somehow heads the ball away from underneath his own crossbar.
They had been teasing him mercilessly about his unkempt ginger barnet. The Sun
Soon enough we were laughing and joshing and teasing our way along once more, the way we do.
I wanted siblings who, for as much as they relished teasing me, would stand by me when the going got tough.
Willy Russell's hit comedy about a hairdresser who decides there is more to life than bleaching roots and teasing frizzy perms.
He also was very adept at picking up on people's weaknesses and teasing them, ruffling some feathers.
Three stable boys strolled down the hall, laughing and teasing each other.
And then it brought me my hairbrush and sat on my shoulder teasing my long brown hair.
`You hate things to be out of order, don't you?' she said teasingly
The long looks and teasing banter was a thin barrier of what really lay between them.
His throat constricted at her innocent teasing.
Bobbing bunches of small boys run around like packs of pie dogs, yapping at everyone, teasing, pushing and screaming.
Ryan asked, but Meg could tell he wasn't irritated; his tone was teasingly amiable.
Her legs went forever, her hair flowed with the cloak as the wind caught both and lifted them slightly, teasingly.
Cleante demanded, sensing that the introverted one was in danger of introverting herself into extinction unless a little human teasing could prevent it. Dwellers in the Crucible
The snake has enemies more lethal than Laverne's memorable mild teasing.
Farmer has many gifts as a storyteller, but one of the simplest and best is her habit of teasing us. Times, Sunday Times
The film centers around twelve year-old Maxi, a swishy boy whose preferences for girlish clothes, romantic movies and Miss Universe pageant reenactments makes him a target for teasing in his ghetto neighborhood. 2009 June : Scrubbles.net
a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him
She claimed not to have experienced the teasing and cruelty that other illegitimates remembered.
Normally this would have been the cue for some sympathetic teasing and commiseration, but not now.
But the virtues are also evident: the desire to entertain while teasing our brains and the ability to show how politics is intertwined with all our relationships. Times, Sunday Times
After all, the author of "Portnoy's Complaint" and "Sabbath's Theater" has made a literary career out of fudging the line between his life and his fiction, writing endlessly aborn misogynistic protagonists teasingly named Philip. A Tale Of Exes And Ohs
teasing and worrying with impish laughter
But the virtues are also evident: the desire to entertain while teasing our brains and the ability to show how politics is intertwined with all our relationships. Times, Sunday Times
But you can get it strange wrathfully the teasingly undismayed all terrain truck deterrent that premier it, and we gave him the web gravimeter. Rational Review
Mrs. Blackwell writes her teasingly about what she calls her obtuseness, going straight ahead with her work, never knowing when she was snubbed or defeated, giving the undiluted doctrine to people without ever perceiving their frantic efforts to escape, and ignoring all the humorous features of the campaigns. The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01
As I pass through the various dressing rooms a few minutes later, I can hear the younger Real Madrid lads teasing Beckham in Spanish.
It could even be described as coy or described more explicitly by invoking that explicit term "cock-teasing. David Finkle: Warning: This Blog Contains Explicit Language and Lots of It
In the harem, the younger wives beg the older for stories of him and the tales begin to unravel, his kindness, his teasing, his passion, his laughter
Elizabeth met his teasing glance with a small disapproving frown.
They were both well-dressed, had silver tsamba basins, silver mounted knives, etc., and were on very familiar terms with each other; while Moggie, as the men called the nun, coquettishly resented the teasing she received from one of those who had accompanied me. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
She was always picking on her kids and grandkids, teasing and joking, and loving each and every one of us as individuals.
I can close my eyes and hear them tinkling yet, sixty years after, and feel the pine-needles under my knees, and smell the wood smoke mingling with the musky perfume of her hair and the scent of the wild flowers outside her bower ... the soft lips teasing my ear, murmuring "Make my bells ring again, pinda-lickoyee* (* Literally," white-eye "; a white man ....) Isabelle
The doors yawned open in front of them, the heavy, wooden slabs teasing her with memories of the hell that lay inside.
Then I told him to stop teasing my dog and he asked me if I wanted to fight.
Kyle had blushed and they spend forever laughing and teasing him about it.
Support school policies that aim to stop size and sexual discrimination, harassment, teasing and name-calling.
Sure, Crudup's teasing sexuality during the first act is entertaining, but it's his desperation and her uncertainty that makes the rest of the film so enjoyable.
I was only teasing him and suddenly he lashed out and hit me in the face.
They're probably too busy flossing, teasing their hair and singing along to Judy Garland records to be bothered.
Your teasing of the new typist has got beyond a joke and I advise you to stop it.
Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge after finding out that his college roommate and another classmate used a webcam to secretly broadcast his sexual encounters with another male, highlighting the dangers of "cyberbullying" -- teasing, harassing, or intimidating with pictures or words distributed online or via text message. Irene Monroe: When will the homophobic bullying cease?
He is only teasing. Don't take it so seriously.
The mildly teasing tone in the girl's voice took most of the sting out of her last comment, yet it still rankled.
The kinfolk (including myself at times) would often take to reasoning with her (in addition to the tantalizing bouts of teasing) concerning this hairdo.
‘If you wish to embrace me, Maria, you know I will be only too pleased to oblige you,’ replied James, his voice low and teasing.
Now I, "says the saucy piece, teasing my lips with hers," have true lovers, because I delight to give pleasure as well as to take it — especially with my English bahadur. Flashman and the Mountain of Light
'Ah, Gerald,' she laughed, caressively, teasingly, 'Ah, what a fine game you played with the Professor's daughter -- didn't you now?' Women in Love
Josh would be teasing him for the rest of the week if he did.
The two young Princes, Don Henri and Don Gabriel, retain their fatal habits of stuffing themselves with grape-jelly, of teasing their sisters, of taking their pleasure by going a-birdnesting, and of cutting switches for themselves from the osier-beds, mauger the laws of the realm. Paras. 500–599
That brings hoots and teasing from all my friends around us of course.
His eyes stared up at me, his kohl eyeliner artfully smudged, his lips almost parting in a teasing smile.
That question, so teasingly close to the right one, is, Why do people join terrorist groups?
I didn't think you meant that seriously;I thought you were teasing.
The old pilgrim paths sometimes beckon to us, teasing us from the routine of workaday lives with promises of spiritual glory and glimmers of the Divine, however we interpret that deeply human need.
I know it's silly but I've grown used to my quiet little life, pottering about the house and garden, teasing the cats and tending the plants.
He was witty, teasing and flamboyant and his dialogue delivery racy and sardonic.
Also, he was teasingly interested in the certain small garments on which Dede worked, while she was radiantly happy over them, though at times, when his tender fun was too insistent, she was rosily confused or affectionately resentful. Chapter XXVII
And those who laugh off teasing risk making it worse. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently realizing the folly of her ways, she declined to press charges, saying it was her fault for teasing the hungry elephant.
People of my generation experienced bullying but it would have been called teasing then. Times, Sunday Times
There was lots of laughing and teasing and they were taking endless selfies. The Sun
Stripping and teasing, as well as dancing and prancing, began in the Jazz Age of the 1920s, when black performers became famous for doing the shimmy.
His friends talk of his teasing, deadpan style. Times, Sunday Times
Don't rise to their teasing; try and laugh it off or just plain ignore them!
She stared affectionately across the meadowlands that surrounded her as a light warm breeze ran teasing fingers through her hair, knowing exactly where she was.
His manner was perfectly poised between gravity and teasing.
She had convinced me to leave my hair down, teasing it so it seemed much too big for a human being.
It might be a good idea to relate strip-teasing in some way to the...zoological phenomenon of molting,...which is ecdysis. Archive 2007-11-01
Don't take what she said seriously she was only teasing.
No, not a death glare; just one of those teasing glares you give your friends, your students and co-workers.
Wal was still doing his paper crane origami and Reese never stopped on teasing me.
His gray-green eyes sparkled with laughter and mirth, as he slung an arm around Jess, his hand teasing her hair affectionately.
Pupils often emphasised that teasing was not seen as harmful, but as a part of everyday banter, often between friends.
Note teasing of bangs at crown: lower part of the bang is brushed down across forehead; upper part is brushed upward in spiky faux pompadour. Her Bad Hair | Her Bad Mother
But why dwell on such things when the sun has returned with renewed resolve, teasing blooms from the helter-skelter of bare branches?
At times their voices did harshen and escalate, though never, it seemed, into full-blown argument, just mild jeers or teasing mixed with bouts of adolescent jostling, all of which Vincent, ten paces removed from the cusp of their circle, found vaguely distracting. Heaven Lake
This for me was a fun mind teasing, problem solving lecture in which I guessed why there where extention faults at pretty much right angles to compressional features. Snell-Pym » East Asian Monsoon
I replied, undoing my ponytail and teasing my hair to make it look a bit better.
Tom would be teasing Katie, and Dad chain-smoking and making jokes, while Mom piled the table with enough food to feed the Zuckermans twice over.
The tall ones spend half their time teasing the short one for being short. Times, Sunday Times
If the animal keepers find someone teasing the animals, they warn him or ask him to leave, they claim.
Hugh the sexpot had only experienced her teasing.
Spock's tolerance for teasing was high, but Kirk suspected he had approached his limit in one area—lately Spock tended to avoid the word "fascinating. Dreams of the Raven
He was obviously a highly sensitive adolescent and his overbearing father hurt him deeply by constantly teasing him about his spotty complexion and calling him'big nose '. The Sun
Stop teasing her, you little fiend!
The tall ones spend half their time teasing the short one for being short. Times, Sunday Times
The blurbist who claims that A Hundred Doors demonstrates "remarkable powers of reinvention" is teasing us, though. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
There was lots of laughing and teasing and they were taking endless selfies. The Sun
The Brixton show was an empty one, full of teasing highs and promises that never quite materialised.
Insert a stake if necessary and set the plant in position, teasing out tangled roots.
The younger girl wondered if Sanura was baiting her, teasing her like she always did, or if she knew what she was really saying to Kira.
He then breaks into a big smile, as if to reassure me he is only teasing.
They feel they're saving the kid a lot of anguish and schoolyard teasing.
‘Arianna you look very happy about a cruise that seconds ago you proclaimed to be stupid, absurd and a complete waster of your precious time,’ Matt says teasing me.
The boys got a rise out of Joe by teasing him.
The others guffawed loudly and I could hear them exchanging teasing blows.
: Tantris pranced and arched his neck, and one of his sapphirine eyes flashed a teasing look up at his Chosen. Arrow's Fall
If performed incorrectly, the stress of teasing or backcombing hair can damage delicate strands.
They spent the afternoon planning and teasing the sour counterman until his heavy middle shook with hard chuckles. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
She tolerated the teasing, until the fourth grade.
I was only teasing him and suddenly he lashed out and hit me in the face.
‘Of course I'll be alright, fusspot,’ she said teasingly.
It would be playing into his hands to react to his deliberate teasing.
For the first time, it seemed, there was no mockery or teasing in George's voice.
He did not show any early nerves, scampering off down the left and deceiving Alen Orman not once, but twice with a teasing dribble.
Ahhhhh, I love the idea of teasing Mr B. I am such a tease and I love it.
This time, I remembered I was lying in the oak closet, and i heard distinctly the gusty wind, and the driving of the snow; I heard, also, the fir-bough repeat its teasing sound, and ascribed it to the right cause; but it annoyed me so much, that i resolved to silence it, if possible; and, I thought, I rose and endeavoured to unhasp the casement.
A playful and teasing twinkle had come into her eye.
There were times when she missed Vincent, and longed to hear the sound of his voice and his affectionate teasing. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
The narrative, prompted by AP's inauguration of another website, and intended as a teasing commentary on this and 'the new creation' theology, as well as non-trinitarian alternatives to Christian orthodoxy and other developments on the (OST) site, might seem to have divagated itself into a non sequitur. Open source theology - Comments
This particular sea - cuny, I admit, blushed through his sea tan till the Lady Om's eyes were twin pools of roguishness in their teasing deliciousness and my arms were all but about her. Chapter 15
The woman who could become America's next first lady is teasingly called the taskmaster by her friends, her task tonight, to sell themselves as an attractive first couple. CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2008
In Right Appetite, they developed a movement conversation with rapid exchanges, flirtatious teasing, even telling silences.
She combed her hair, gently teasing out the knots.
If her friends tease her about it then that means she either likes u back, and in saying your name theyre also teasing her, or she doesnt like you that way and her friends know this but they like teasing her about how much you like her and how everybody knows! Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
Allow to dry naturally, or use a hairdryer on a low setting, gently teasing to fluff up the pile. Times, Sunday Times
She smiled teasingly and blew a kiss at Leo as he began helping the bellboy load up the trolley with the luggage.
He busily scampered up-and-down the left wing while he was on the pitch and sent in a number of teasing crosses that caused untold trouble in the home defence.

How To Use Teasing In A Sentence

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