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

I'll give them half an hour's study whilst you wash up the tea things and titivate.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir