tantalize
tantalise BrE

The report is tantalizing enough to make you want to know more.

All day long she had been tantalized and put off.

It is tantalizing to consider what he might have had in mind.

As she moved closer, the heat of her body was tantalizing.

At the same time, these items are tantalizing in their possibility.

What he's gotten so far is just enough to tantalize.

We can see so many of those stars; they tantalize us.

But the little that is known about the meeting has made the subject tantalizing for the Republicans.

Perhaps now he would learn the answers to some of the questions that had been tantalizing him.

He was close now and the scent of her tantalized him.

So far the data are tantalizing, but the evidence is very new and still in flux.

But we were tantalized: why did his wine not win?

The men and women who looked at them seemed tantalized by what they could see but not leaf through.

To be tantalized so and have the door slammed in your face!

It is as though the author gets his kicks by tantalizing.

The offense has so much potential that way, and its chance of success is tantalizing.

But the studies, while tantalizing, have not yet explained why there is a connection.

Thus the information released by the board is tantalizing but not definitive.

I once had a dream that will tantalize me forever.

They passed an eating house, and the smell of the food was tantalizing.

The snippets he did get out to us were tantalizing.

Likely the wall had been built like this to tantalize anyone who might try to escape.

At least some parents seem tantalized by the possibility of a reading alternative.

I'd rather tantalize any day than give away the whole show the first time I see a man."

It seemed straightforward from a cooking point of view, and the results were tantalizing.

Why should you care to tantalise me with a moment?"

Airports had never ceased to tantalise him as he got older.

This two-week trip is sure to tantalise all the senses.

Don't tantalise me any longer; tell me the name."

To tantalise him with erotic thoughts?

How you arouse and tantalise me!

The throat leans back, to tantalise the lip: -- The sudden shame of her is overthrown!

Refreshingly unpretentious, Latvia manages to tantalise even the most jaded traveller.

Big plates of nachos, burritos and other Tex-Mex specialities will tantalise the taste buds and warm your soul.

She gasped with delight as the tongue slid from her quim along the cleft between her bum-cheeks to tantalise her small brown hole.

Meanwhile, critics might argue that not enough is being done to preserve sturgeon in the wild rather than farming it to tantalise the taste buds of wealthy consumers.

More grist to the conspiracy theorists' mills possibly but I just think its one of those amazing coincidences that history throws up every now and again to tantalise the discoverer.

Now she knew how to tease and tantalise her, hold her on the brim of honeydew euphoria then flood her wordless yearning with a Niagara of delirium.

If the male shows interest in the parading female, he will move closer; the female continues to tantalise its target by shuffling further away and continuing to circle him as before.

Located just off bustling Lygon Street in Carlton, known at Little Italy, this is the place to go for great coffee and something sweet to tantalise your tastebuds.

This detailed, intimate and realistic approach, at times, strongly suggests matters of personal experience and attitudes to actual contemporary events, yet the specifics remain elusive in ways that tantalise readers and critics.

Your feet are a mystery in shoes that look like velvet, look like suede, fit you and enhance you and tantalise my warm mouth with desire every time you move your toes.

Mrs Goreng, I think, guessed at this hunger of mine, but would tantalise, only dropping the knowledge a fragment at a time, like mother bird stuffing nourishment down the throat of fledgling.

He fancied there was something of affectation in Cronshaw's minute knowledge of cricket; he liked to tantalise people by talking to them of things that obviously bored them; Clutton threw in a question.

What they could do on one of Thomas McMahon's or Peter Greene's creations, and what the meaning of such a new record would be, are questions that will tantalise us until they, or other runners, provide the answer.

Each year, Crystal has a Wine and Food Festival, when gastronomic gurus from around the globe join selected cruises and give cookery demonstrations, offer tips and generally tantalise the taste buds with specially prepared dishes.

That is the worst of what there is to encounter; and if I tell you of what once happened to a friend of mine, it is by no means to tantalise you with false hopes; for the adventure was unique.

The IXth International Conference on AIDS held in Berlin last week provided a forum for the luminaries of HIV research - Luc Montagnier, Robert Gallo, and Anthony Fauci - to tantalise an audience of over 12,000 with their speculations about future treatment.