tantalized

Example Sentences

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Our polluted, chopped up, canalized, dammed and damned rivers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2020

They do this to restore, to the fullest extent possible, the habitats of and —to put the natural curves back in canalized rivers, for instance, so the waters can flow as they once did.

From Scientific American • Feb. 15, 2013

Into these cisterns they evidently canalized the rains, which descended by a trough from the hills and of which the supply was undoubtedly scant.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955

Anxiety, if it is successfully canalized into an aggressive effort to help win the war, will never become fear.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chopin founded no school, although the possibilities of the piano were canalized by him.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James