tease
Example Sentences
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My friends sometimes tease me for being the only remaining “cool one.”
From Slate • Jun. 13, 2026
So that tease at the end has seeds for acres and acres of stories.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
Their data categories, such as for managers, may have been too broad to tease out the effect of DEI.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
The movie’s real twist is in everything that follows the trailer’s tease.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
I don’t touch Nadia’s hair stuff, but just to tease her I put the eyeliners in the cup where the toothbrushes live.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
Vocabulary lists containing tease
myPerspectives 9.1
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
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