Definition of Tantalize
to tease someone with a promise and then not deliver upon it
Examples of Tantalize in a sentence
In an attempt to tantalize me, my personal trainer offered a piece of cake as an incentive for me to finish my three miles on the treadmill. 🔊
A car salesman will often tantalize you with an expensive vehicle that is not within your budget. 🔊
Because my baby sister likes to tantalize the dog, she will sometimes offer him a bone and then take it back. 🔊
The purpose of a lottery commercial or radio advertisement is to tantalize people into believing they can become wealthy with the purchase of a lottery ticket. 🔊
In order to make my class behave better, my teacher would tantalize us with offers of a longer recess we never earned. 🔊
Stores sometimes use bait-and-switch gimmicks to tantalize people into coming to their sales. 🔊
When my rival got the bike I wanted, she rode by my house just to tantalize me. 🔊
The gym’s commercial strives to tantalize consumers with a low introductory rate that increases as soon as a person walks through the door. 🔊
Although the strange man tried to tantalize the girl with ice cream, he still could not get her inside of his van. 🔊
The little boy could not understand why his mother would tantalize him by putting the cookies on a shelf he could not reach. 🔊
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