How to Use tease in a Sentence

tease

1 of 2 verb

• The boy's mother told him to stop teasing the dog.
• He was always teased by his brother about being short.
• The other children teased her because she was wearing braces.
• He and his wife enjoy teasing each other about their different tastes in music.
• Oh, don't get so angry. I was just teasing!
• Chinn teases us with the tropes of the high school genre.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
• This sweater isn't the first time she's teased the new project.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2023
• What is the song that Kanye West teased on your birthday?
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
• The inscrutability of the white’s shape and size teased.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• And about the other kids who have started to tease him about it all.
  — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
• The actor further teased the movie with a promise of unique views of the sport.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 10 July 2023
• On Thursday, host Julie Chen Moonves teased a look at the house’s kitchen and its chess board.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
• Still, Fennell asks us to play along, as the cool (read: rich) kids tease poor Oliver.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
• The trailer also teased a few of the twists set to challenge the contestants.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
• His work had humor too, with licks that could cackle and leads that could tease.
  — Jim Farber, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
• His work had humor, too, with licks that could cackle and leads that could tease.
  — Jim Farber, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• Humane has been teasing its first device, the AI Pin, for most of this year.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2023
• Flipping back to the 1960s, Ross’ bouffant wig was never not teased or set.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 26 Mar. 2024
• The video teased highlights from interviews with the members.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2023
• Watch a sneak peek of the new season below, teasing cheers, tears, and swaths of torn fabric.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 9 May 2023
• No, this isn’t like a Marvel movie, which often tease plot points of a future film.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
• Opinion Op-Ed: For years, I got teased for wearing face masks.
  — Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• At one point, Maya compliments the class for not teasing Abbey about her last name, Ho.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
• The move was teased in the practice footage released by UA Athletics throughout the week.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 19 Aug. 2023
• At the time, the Grammy winner just teased act ii — a follow-up to Renaissance.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
• This is Gomez’s first new song of 2024, further teasing a new album of music from the star.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
• The hotel teased the reopening in a Facebook post on Dec. 22.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
• But Blake being Blake decided to tease her about her dance moves.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2023
• The top portion of her hair was brushed back from her face and teased for a bit of volume at the front, then pinned at the crown, and the lower layers were styled in a cheeky, flirty little flick at the ends.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 8 Apr. 2024
• On Sunday, Eilish teased the announcement in a video, backed by what is presumably a snippet from one of her new songs.
  — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024

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tease

2 of 2 noun

• The lower rate is just a tease to attract new customers.
• At the time, Pharrell said that the shades might be a tease of a larger project.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 21 June 2023
• But some of the teases can stand – or fly, or speed race – on their own.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2023
• Host Julie Chen Moonves then ended the show with a tease to the next twist: The houseguests were no longer in the house.
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2023
• But of course, our tease of season 3 takes us away from that.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2022
• Finally, hit us up with a big tease for the back half of the season.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2022
• Last year felt like a tease: Were the movies really back?
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
• Yet for more than decade, Texas has been more tease than titan.
  — Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2022
• Once cool, use a paddle brush to tease hair slightly at the crown, then brush through hair.
  — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2022
• Some of the issues of identity nudged around are more of a tease than a topic.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2022
• Knock at the Cabin,’ M. Night Shyamalan’s latest, can’t see the forest for the tease.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Ever the tease, Lively did not add a caption to explain the change.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2023
• The single wasn’t as sticky as the quotable lyrics and TikTok tease promised, however.
  — Megan Armstrong, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2022
• The first two trailers tease that Thor 4 will have a similar tone.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 June 2022
• But after this week's tease, the leakers decided to jump the gun.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 May 2022
• Was this a tease to what could potentially be the subject of a third movie?
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 28 Dec. 2022
• Watch closely — this could be a tease for what's to come for season 7 of Summer House.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2022
• The slow-jam tease of the buildup makes the payoff worth it — and all of this in what amounts to only one chapter of the roving story.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2023
• Some kind of scene, tease, cameo, after the film's credits finish rolling.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 16 Dec. 2022
• Soon, the trailer teases that the series will explore the group’s darker days.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
• There have been false starts and teases of a proper Tony! reunion for years.
  — Brandon Caldwell, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
• The Fortnite tease comes amid Gaga working on new music.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
• Trixie Motel has proved to be the best kind of tease, leading to solid bookings since the launch.
  — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• But windows and beakers aren’t the only elements that tease at the plot for this season.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2022
• The trailer ends with a tease of an epic battle between Godzilla and Kong.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• But the biggest tease comes from a brief post-credits scene that introduces a new foe.
  — William Goodman, Men's Health, 2 Sep. 2023
• The first Love and Thunder tease trailer introduced both Mighty Thor and the hammer.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 24 May 2022
• And with season three and four both in the can, Murai gave a tease of how the final season will also look.
  — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2022
• As The Traitors season 2 approaches its home stretch, Cumming teases even more twists to come.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
• The couple seconds of silence after that gasp-inducing moment made for one of the best teases the show has ever aired.
  — Erin Strecker, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024