Provoke playfully

Usage examples of tease.

Her soft laughter was inviting, a sultry siren teasing him with the sexual allure of her voice.

The thrill of finding an allusion, of locating the precise source of a teasing echo, of suddenly catching an obscure pun or seeing what should have been an obvious joke makes the reader alert, curious, eager to find new puzzles to solve.

She smiled in anticipation, but tonight she would tease the singer until she begged.

Others, he was as happy to tease me, take care of me remotely via analog transmission.

Yes--the very same teasing, now moody, now reckless, always astute Johnny Dromore, with a good heart beneath an outside that seemed ashamed of it.

Gaby smiled, remembering how, just recently, her father had teased her about how hard it was going to be to try to find a wedding gown with a blankie pouch.

Ahead of Michaelmas were storage cubes, work surfaces, instrumentation panels, sterile racks of teasing needles, forceps and scalpels, microtomes, a bank of micromanipulative devices all shrouded beneath transparent flexible dust hoods or safe behind glassy panels.

Marilyn teased and gave Milah a low-five as the two of them had a good laugh.

Her thighs fell open helplessly under his ministrations, allowing him free rein, and he took full advantage, his mouth and hands stroking and caressing, delving and withdrawing, wickedly teasing until she was gasping and writhing and moaning his name.

It is a misapplication of his powers, which it also cripples, and teases away his hearers.

She turned her head and looked at Richard, convinced that she had either misheard him, or that he was teasing her out of her dissatisfaction.

His hand slid down her body to the soft hair of her mons, then further, parting her nether lips to tease her waiting clit.

She thought of his finger reaching inside her, his mouth teasing her breast, and she pulled the blanket over her face with a mortified groan.

It remained out of sight, teasing me like the first phosphene hints of a migraine.

She was promising trouble with every inch of her body, from that gleam in her eyes and that pouty little smile on her lips to the way one hand teased at the neck of her dress.