tease

[tiːz]

Definition:
1. To annoy an animal, especially by touching it, pulling its tail, etc.
2. To make somebody sexually excited, especially when you do not intend to have sex with them.
3. Annoy persistently.

Use 'tease' in a sentence:

1. It is really important to understand and try and tease out what is the human connection with fire today.
2. Don't tease others.
3. My family is used to his tics, but most kids think it's weird, so they tease him.
4. He'd be capable of coming to seek me, to tease Edgar.
5. Don't get upset ─ I was only teasing.
6. Ellen shouted back, feigning impatience, still able to tease at 110.
7. Games are a wonderful way to tease and challenge your brain.
8. There was a tease in Chabrol and many signs of bourgeois respectability.
9. He told her how the boys in East Poldown had set on him, teasing him.
10. Other children often tease him because of his long hair.
11. I tease him that he'd better keep it handy now that he has a girlfriend!
12. 'I just want to be skinny so no one will tease me,' explained Sara Totonchi.
13. Later she heard he had told one of her friends she was a tease.
14. I thought she was teasing, playing the innocent, but looking back, I'm not so sure.
15. They tease each other and light cigarettes as they boil macaroni and brew tea.
16. Don't tease my child.
17. Smith was at his most teasing.
18. My brother's such a tease.
19. 'You must be expecting a young man,' she teased.
20. It's impolite to tease others about their weight and appearance.
21. Tease a skunk in Minnesota, and they can haul you off to jail.
22. They try to tease out the answers without appearing to ask.
23. I'm learning to tease wool.
24. 'But we're having such fun, aren't we?' he protested with a teasing smile.
25. The girls watched, little teasing smiles animating their faces.
26. You tease me because you think I'm a silly girl.
27. And there's a lot of some quite spectacular experiments that try to tease that apart.
28. They used to tease her about her hair.
29. She gave over teasing and grinned at him.
30. The best way to deal with a tease is to ignore him.
31. They began to tease and bully him.
32. He teased me mercilessly about going Hollywood.
33. If she doesn't measure up to your ideal girl, then tease her about it.
34. I'm writing an articleon women who tease their way to the top.
35. In fourth grade she told me she wanted to be thin so no one would tease her.
36. He teased a child unmercifully.
37. They'll tease you because you're different, or for no good reason.
38. Well, so you're teasing me again!
39. Don't tease that dog! It is quite aggressive.
40. So, thermo is also a big tease, as you can see from my descriptions of these laws here.
41. I used to get teased about my name.
42. There had to be an answer — he was sure he could tease it out if only he had time.
43. Instead of doing any good, she does nothing but tease me all day long.
44. For a moment Basil looked angry, and then he began to tease her.
45. Lieberman thinks yes, though the proof is tough to tease out.
46. Don't provoke the animal by teasing. It may bite you.
47. I tease her.
48. They tease him; the bubble bursts!
49. It's one thing to tease your sister, but it's another to hit her.
50. The boys would tease you to death if they didn't fancy you.
51. He was only teasing you.
52. Often he teased me till my temper went and I stamped and screamed, feeling furiously helpless.
53. It's not polite to tease the disabled.
54. The older boys at school used to tease him.
55. Uncle Sebastian used to tease Mother and Daddy unmercifully that all they could produce was girls.