TEASE in a Sentence

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Her big brother's teasing used to infuriate Margaret; no matter how hard she tried to keep her temper, he always got her goat.

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 Meanings and Examples of TEASE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tease
 v.  annoy persistently; harass with persistent criticism; gain by persistent coaxing
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  Scarlett wanted to respect and adore her mother like an idol and to rumple her hair and tease her too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  He never knew why but girls always treated him like a younger brother and were very kind, but never bothered to tease him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  One morning the two big bulls, Gladstone and Brigham Young, thought spring had come, and they began to tease and butt at each other across the barbed wire that separated them.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
4  Before the spring term of school was over, I could fight, play 'keeps,' tease the little girls, and use forbidden words as well as any boy in my class.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
5  WE WERE SINGING rhymes to tease Antonia while she was beating up one of Charley's favourite cakes in her big mixing-bowl.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
6  Don't tease, but go home and rest, for you'll be up half the night.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
7  I give you leave, returned Laurie, who enjoyed having someone to tease, after his long abstinence from his favorite pastime.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
8  Oh, you shouldn't tease me about that again.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
9  I smiled as I unfolded it, and devised how I would tease you about your aristocratic tastes, and your efforts to masque your plebeian bride in the attributes of a peeress.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  And he knew it and did it on purpose to tease her, the old brute, her father-in-law.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
11  Her cousins might attack, but could hardly tease her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  She would hesitate, she would tease, she would condition, she would require a great deal, but she would finally accept.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
13  She had used to tease Wildeve, but that was before another had favoured him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
14  "Go now, child, and thou shalt tease me as thou wilt another time," cried Hester Prynne.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
15  She made use of me to tease other admirers, and she turned the very familiarity between herself and me to the account of putting a constant slight on my devotion to her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  They try to tease out the answers without appearing to ask.
2  Don't tease him about his weight - it's cruel.
3  If you always tease others like that, you'll forfeit the good opinion of your friends.
4  Uncle Sebastian used to tease Mother and Daddy unmercifully that all they could produce was girls.
5  They tease tissue for microscopic examinations.
6  Though Barbara Jordan's fellow students used to tease her about her lofty ambitions, she rose to hold one of the highest positions in the land.
7  The editor could tease great books from an author's first draft.
8  He must be teasing,or else he's mad.
9  I was only teasing him and suddenly he lashed out and hit me in the face.
10  Her big brother's teasing used to infuriate Margaret; no matter how hard she tried to keep her temper, he always got her goat.
11  While it was still wet, I gently teased out the tangled knots in Rosie's hair.
12  She teased out the knots in her hair.
13  I used to hate being teased about my red hair when I was at school.
14  Speak roughly to your little boy; And beat him when he sneezes; He only does it to annoy; Because he knows it teases.