tantalize

I wish the same could be said about his overlong dream-logic interludes, which tantalize as peeks into Frankie’s psyche but eventually feel like style filler.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

To tantalize and tease prospective viewers, the marketing team behind “Babygirl” has leaned all the way in, emphasizing the movie’s Christmas Day release in promotional materials that demand audiences “get everything you want” this holiday.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024

No matter the answer, Gef has continued to vex and tantalize for decades.

From National Geographic ● Sep. 19, 2023

Invisible curls of hickory smoke tantalize your nostrils even before you take that first bite.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2023

The dense brown forest on either side never seemed to vary, and ahead there was only a new bend in the river to tantalize her.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

This time, he tantalizes us with the milieu of nightclub self-expression and a group of regular amateurs Alex gets comfortable hanging with.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

The possibility tantalizes the philosopher, but even more so the astronomer: planets around red dwarfs are easier to find than around any other type of star.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2023

As December unfolds, the calendar tantalizes Eva with wealth, love and perhaps even the chance to walk again — but it also demands sacrifices.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

As for online dating itself, that's even worse because it tantalizes with the promise of connection, but in order to stay in business, the algorithm for these apps are designed to be ineffective.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2020

The atom provides an organizing principle for modern physics—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling matter and energy.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Because for as many people as Byrd tantalized during her legendary cable run through the ’80s and ’90s, there were just as many who were outraged and scandalized by her sex-positive, queer-inclusive values.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Critics say he’s winging it, exaggerating wishes into declarations, tantalized by the bauble of a Nobel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

Back then, Ohtani’s 100-mph fastball and wicked off-speed repertoire had tantalized evaluators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025

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

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2023

They were on the verge of a major discovery, and the glory of it perhaps tantalized them.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

More tantalizing than unnerving, “Yaga,” adapted by Kat Sandler from her very successful stage play, is an exercise in mischief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The growing popularity of these products hinges on a tantalizing hook: bond-like yield payments that may, in some cases, exceed 15% as a target.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

"I think the great significance of these findings, and the tantalizing picture that it promotes, is a great motivation and reason to further examine solid-state nitrogen physics at very low temperatures," Umurhan said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Consider “Coyote vs. Acme” a tantalizing pile of popcorn in the median.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

"But I swore I wouldn't tell it and here I am tantalizing you."

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald