titivate

Example Sentences

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Sharp, salty and/or crunchy are the aims here, to titivate and offset the creamy avo.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2019

One in three people in the UK – 20m – are gardeners and they spend £5bn a year at 30,000 garden-related businesses to titivate their flower beds, window boxes, allotments and lawns.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2013

They titivate their short hair: "nothing fantastic, no hint of Merseybeat".

From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2012

In the monotonous scientific pursuits of Microbe Hunters Paul de Kruif found sensationalism enough to titivate a large public�he demonstrated fascination in the perverse antics of microbes, drama in the stolid heroism of hunters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gravely and calmly he draws brushes and so on from a receptacle under the box-seat, and commences to titivate himself.

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by Hay, William Delisle