How to use taunt in a sentence

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• He's a scrappy dog and will charge at you if you taunt him.From the entry scrappy
• The teacher accused the bullies of barbarianism when she caught them taunting the girl in a wheelchair.From the entry barbarianism
• The paladin can make for a decent tank, but I recommend that you get a class with better taunting skills.From the entry tank
• Being markedly different as a teenager can get you taunted; as an adult it can make you famous.From the entry markedly
• Also near eye level, his twig and berries taunt my emaciated masculinity.2021, Kendall Grey, Fooled. From the entry twig and berries
• Glister was determined to prove the wizened piskie wrong, but its taunts were well founded.2017, Andi Watson, Glister. From the entry piskie
• He taunted Trump over his made-in-China ties and his spray tan.2016 February 29, Ron Fournier, “How to Bully a Bully”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2016. From the entry spray tan
• Scoreboard!" Bella taunted, pocketing her winnings as a red X went over K.2010 June 15, Rob Hedden, The Condemned, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 225. From the entry scoreboard
• And Smallin’s voice was responsible for the maniaclike cackle that taunts listeners in the song’s opening moment.2010 November 3, Steph Rodriguez, “An unforgettable laugh”, in SN&R. From the entry maniaclike
• He taunted the Knicks instead with hanging jumpers, impossible fadeaways and layups in traffic.2009 February 3, Howard Beck, “Bryant Puts on a Show, Setting Garden Records”, in New York Times. From the entry fadeaway
• “Earth to Kimi, holla back,” Yvonne taunts after I miss another easy serve.2008, Sandra Foy, This Life Isn't Perfect Holla, →ISBN. From the entry holla back
• Now who's so big and tough?" "Dude, don't taunt the god-killing abomination."2006, Rich Burlew, The Order of the Stick: No Cure for the Paladin Blues, page 275. From the entry deicidal
• The difference between teasing and taunting is like the difference between kissing and spitting.1998 February 22, Judith Martin, “Tease and sympathy”, in The Washington Post. From the entry tease
• But you might be tempted to speak when taunted by others.”1979, Anne McCaffrey, Dragondrums, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, pages 19–20. From the entry babblemouth
• Nothing captured the alt-right mentality better than cuckservative, with its taunt that moderation is unmanly and certain conservative males are cuckolds.2017 December 22, Dominic Green, “Are You Sufficiently Woke?”, in The Weekly Standard, Washington, retrieved 10 Feb 2022. From the entry cuckold
• “Here Draggy, Draggy, Draggy, where are you, you sadistic whelp” taunted Grinsfeld as he crept down the staircase into the dungeon.2017, Robert Montgomery, Through the Event Horizon, Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry draggy
• Remember that massive half-built Target that's been taunting Hollywoodians?2016 May 5, Danielle Directo-Meston, “Hollywood's Three-Story Target Will Finally Emerge From Construction Limbo”, in Racked. From the entry Hollywoodian
• With red meat teasing and taunting at nearly every neighborhood eatery, what’s a one-time AAV meat addict supposed to do?2009 November 22, Sam Alcorn, “This is season for giving taste buds a workout”, in The Sunday Item, Sunbury, Pa., →OCLC, page E3, column 3. From the entry the spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak
• Taunt describes the work involved in breaking Enigma messages, cribs, cillies, the Herivel tip, help from Bombes and more.2005, Brian J Winkel, Cipher A Deavours, David Kahn, Louis Kruh, The German Enigma cipher machine. From the entry cilly
• “When are you going to move out and grow up?” these all-rightniks taunt, as if one action depended on the other.1997 January 10, Mimi Sheraton, “In the Village, 50-Year Affair For a Walker Still in Love”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry let us see
• The pilots taunt me: “Slam-clicker” (a crew member who goes straight to his or her room and doesn’t come out).1982, Working Woman (Hal Publications), volume 7, issues 7–12, page 225. From the entry slam-clicker
• Lestrade tugged his muffler closer about his throat and eyed a swoop of gulls balefully as they taunted their wingtips against the water.2025, Marcia Wilson, A Fanged and Bitter Thing, Andrews UK Limited. From the entry swoop
• It was she who tipped off Italian lensman Mario Brenna—to send a taunting message to the real love of her life, Hasnat Khan.2022 April 5, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair. From the entry lensman
• Perhaps regarded as one of her funniest lines, she can taunt the enemy after eliminating them by saying, "Wow, cringe," in a fittingly condescending tone.2022 October 21, Joanna Koziol, “D.Va Is Overwatch 2's Most Toxic Character”, in Screen Rant, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2022. From the entry skill issue
• Their children had a refrain with which they taunted their southern French counterparts: ‘the Franks go to fight, the Provençals to food’.2011, Conor Kostick, The Siege of Jerusalem: Crusade and Conquest in 1099, Bloomsbury, →ISBN. From the entry Provençal
• Usually, the only reason I play in Yoshi's Island is to have fun with the clouds - put proxies on them, taunt from them, whatever.2002, "yc", Super Smash Bros.: Kirby http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/file/198854/9449. From the entry proxy
• "Rochelle!" I hear my grandma's taunt.1971, E. L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel, Random House, published 2007, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry Rochelle
• Four, although Baahubali is not a Bollywood film, Baahubali trolls resent the success of Bollywood’s three Khans, because they are non-Hindus – hence the “Urduwood” taunt.2017, FirstPost. From the entry Urduwood
• The clocks lining the dream hallway in her mind taunted her with their twisting hands, their broken faces, and some of them, with a cringe-worthy coo-coo, coo-coo squall.2014, Norah Wilson, Heather Doherty, Forever the Night. From the entry coo-coo
• The whole day long you kept showing up behind the door, hurling taunt after taunt at me for not tying a rakhi on you, until Mother finally relented.2011, Altaf Fatima, “Do You Suppose It’s the East Wind?”, in Reza Aslan, editor, Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle…. From the entry rakhi
• I said ok and resorted to only taunting or using a taunt spell to get mobs off the wizzy but the cleric got up me for that too.2003 February 6, James Hicks, “New LoY spell info up.”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet). From the entry get up
• What is known as his Utengi is a kind of battle-chant, extolling his own prowess and taunting his enemies, quite in the fashion of a Norse kempery-man.1928, “Native Poetry in East Africa”, in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, volume 1, number 3, pages 348-57. From the entry kempery-man
• She deserved additional glory in return for the many years when she had gone birthdayless and little girls like Enid and Geraldine had taunted her airily.1907, Florence Wilkinson, The silent door. From the entry birthdayless
• To-day he has imitated Kerensky's fashion of appearing at Red Army concerts or parades in a semiuniform of khaki, and even his own friends have taunted him with Napoleonic designs."1919 May 10, “Trotzky, the fire-eater, and Lenine, the icy intellectual force of Bolshevism”, in The Literary Digest, volume 61, number 6…. From the entry semiuniform

Meaning of taunt

1. verb To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
2. noun A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery.
3. adjective Very high or tall.

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Questions about taunt in a sentence

How do you use taunt in a sentence?

Taunt is used as a verb, noun and adjective. For example: “John taunts his brother to reveal his hiding spot.”

What is a short sentence with taunt?

“"Rochelle!" I hear my grandma's taunt.”

What does taunt mean?

Taunt means to make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.