It was easy to taunt or to tease Shotaye, but to arouse her anger appeared a dangerous undertaking; and as for harming her person, none but the shamans would have attempted it.
He was in earnest about this matter, and whenever Hayoue grew serious it was best not to tease him too much.
Nor tease thus a poor creature, entitled to protection, not outrage.
Perhaps we do not tease him so much as we tease John.
But when we got Miller's Dictionary on the floor, how he did tease me!
I was afraid he meant to laugh at me afterwards, and he can tease terribly, but I could not have helped saying what came into my head that morning if I had tried.
Miss Davenport, as we went, was as gay as a lark; and, in the spirit of light badinage with which she had begun the day, contrived to tease me very heartily all the way that we went.
She flies into a rage for just nothing, and it's always those people somehow that make one want to tease them.
I daresay you'll learn to tease too and to squabble, after you've been a while here.
De naughty boys in de village used to tease de little monkey, and he runned up a tree one day.
I do not care about them and would rather they stayed where they are; for they jest at everything, and if they know I have been ill, they will tease me about it.
The singers remain in the tree-tops and tease the imagination with thoughts of a domestic life lived upon a higher plane than that of earth, an exalted state where all is beatific and serene.
And the Dove replied, "Why do you tease me with questions when you cannot help me?
So Mrs. Petz hid herself in the back of the den, and sure enough along came Master Lampe and began to tease the young bears.
You needn't tease me about that, for you know as well as anything that I meant percaline.
He liked to tease Cricket, because, as he said, she was so "gamey.
If we take the boat off the boys can't get to us and tease us.
Then, firm in the belief that a constant drop will wear away a stone, he began persistently to tease the king into letting him go on his journey.
You know I tree'd poor guvie for a whole night, and I tease poor Towsie, and I slew the Cochin China cock.
Harry and his friend frequently went to the forest together, but never again near Towsie's gate, because the boy had promised not to tease the bull any more.
Fluffy was such a gentle little kitten that he never would tease or make fun of any one, no matter what they did or didn't do.
Jazbury jumped up after it, and tried to tease his mother into playing with him.
And so it happens that, in spite of all academic opinion, those who understand Shakespeare best tease themselves least over his dramatic lapses.
And she will teaseand lecture you, say you are 'not sweetheart high yet, only a little maid,' and so on.
She will not go down: she knows that he is there: that he is hiding for fun, to tease her.
Sometimes she would be seized by a desire to tease him.
No, not a bit; the poor cross little things who fret and tease and worry are the ones who should be praised when they make an effort not to be disagreeable.
Persons who take too much wine are their most constant companions; they pounce upon them and twitch and tease and torment them until the poor wine-bibber trembles from head to foot.
His principal pleasure consisted in tormenting everything and everybody he came near; but if he had any preference, it was for boys; to tease and ill-use them had the power of affording him great happiness.
This will do; but why you women always stick tassels and fringe all over a sofa-cushion, to tease and tickle a fellow, is what I don't understand.
I 'll help you tease for your velocipede, and won't say a word against it, when mamma and granny beg papa not to let you have it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tease" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
