tantalized

Example Sentences

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Cancer vaccines have long tantalized and frustrated researchers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

But they are tantalized by possibilities beyond the game.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024

The prospect of Latino voters coming to the polls in numbers proportional to their 40% share of the state’s population and transforming local and state races has tantalized activists and analysts for years.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023

I am far from alone in being tantalized by its promise.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2023

Pitezel’s almost hallucinatory description must have tantalized Holmes, for he wrote to Cigrand and offered her a job as his personal secretary, at twice the salary she was making in Keeley.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson