What is "tantalise"

Usage examples of "tantalise".

Tantalising glimpses of villages with small houses bordering the road, signposts which she never quite managed to read as they tore past, and now and then the lights of villas standing back from the road.

It seemed no more than a few seconds later that he woke from the tantalising dream, sprung from sleep by the sound of a motor horn.

Attempts to show that Begi was in fact a solar myth originating in latitudes where seasons are marked enough to foster concepts of death and rebirth of the sun are tantalising, but fruitless in the absence of any other than oral evidence, though it is highly possible that prehistoric cross-cultural interaction provided some elements of the Begi myth which has descended to us.

The shadows teased and tantalised them, and the Gryphon crawled through every space they could find.

Names of places, the name of Captain Hart, occasional disconnected words, tantalised without enlightening us.

Was she the only one they were playing this game with or were otriers being tantalised in the same way?

The uneaten Danish pastries at the Owen Roberts' airfield tantalised my emptiness until I could almost smell them.

The strange intimacy tantalises Mackintosh as he watches a girl bending over a sink, washing up.

Brother Petrus was basting the plump little carcase lovingly with his rich wine sauce, tasting delicately, adding a pinch of rosemary and a mere hint of rue, when Prior Robert swept into the kitchen, imperially tall and papally austere, and stood over the pot, his alabaster nostrils twitching to the tantalising scent, and his cool eyes studying the appearance of the dish, which was as alluring as its savour.