tantalizing
Example Sentences
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In this forbidding portrait, suffering threatens to outweigh the tantalizing possibility of redemption.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
But then, he flashed the tantalizing potential that the Dodgers saw when they signed him before last season.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
And yet the prospect of using origami to improve existing technologies is, for some, tantalizing.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
They’re inspiring and tantalizing, each salad photo a beautiful showcase of visual media at its finest.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
It clattered to a stop, still a few tantalizing feet away.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
Vocabulary lists containing tantalizing
The Giver
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"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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The Things They Carried
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