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
So-called leveraged exchange-traded funds offer a tantalizing prospect—to double, or sometimes triple, stock market moves.
From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026
And yet the prospect of using origami to improve existing technologies is, for some, tantalizing.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
His precious moments are not memories of an idealized past, nor projections of a tantalizing dream, but interventions in our complex present that reveal beautiful and unsettling layers.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
But he’d never had any inkling of what he now sensed lay beyond that tantalizing door.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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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