How to Use tease out in a Sentence

tease out

verb

• In a new study, scientists tried to tease out why this might be the case.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• One source told the outlet that royal aids were working around the clock to tease out the details.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 7 May 2023
• Rather, younger artists tease out threads and elaborate on them.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• Longer-term studies are needed to tease out the full effects.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 29 July 2024
• Also, Earth in the moon’s sky is far brighter than the moon is from Earth, which can make city lights more difficult to tease out.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2024
• In the study, the scientists used other methods to try and tease out the real story.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2020
• The researchers hoped that comparing the Covid group to the others would help isolate Covid-19 as a cause and tease out its effects on the brain.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 8 Apr. 2021
• Fogel and Ashford tease out the latent horror in the story.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2023
• But not enough of it teases out the synesthesia of a night in a restaurant: the adrenaline, the prep, the community, the taste.
  — Longreads, 28 Apr. 2023
• The insights from early polls tease out the major issues voters are thinking about that could shape the race.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
• The rest of the hair is dealer’s choice: Curl or tease out the bottom for a dual-texture effect or comb a gel through the ends to get a fully wet look.
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 3 Aug. 2024
• But the reasons for the disparity are worth teasing out.
  — Becket Adams, National Review, 12 Nov. 2023
• Candidates need to focus on housing Whether housing can drive voters to the polls is hard to tease out.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2024
• There’s a lot of information that needs to be teased out over several episodes.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 12 June 2023
• No doubt the thorny topic of regulation will be teased out further there.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
• Climate change may also be playing a role, Trepanier said, but the exact mechanisms are hard to tease out at the moment.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2023
• Saito has made a career of teasing out an eco-theory from the late, unpublished writings of Karl Marx.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
• That meant the filmmakers could go back to Malvo to explain something a witness brought up or tease out a memory.
  — Fox News, 6 May 2021
• Her hair was parted deeply to one side for that signature Valley Girl flip and curled into ringlets, then teased out for lots of big, bold, fluffy volume from roots to ends.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 19 Sep. 2023
• In her part of the project, McMonagle has attempted to tease out the main sources of uncertainty in the fish-carbon conveyer belt.
  — WIRED, 9 Dec. 2023
• The report teases out some of the strategic differences between the two streaming rivals.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2024
• With water, a bit of salinity is teased out, followed by baked pear with cinnamon, a touch of white pepper, green melon and a hint of wood smoke.
  — Chris Perugini, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• The picture of nitrogen pollution was harder to tease out, and the report didn't pinpoint a trend above Bellevue.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
• Every year, the top arbiters of the English language tease out the most noteworthy, zeitgeist-y words to describe the current moment.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
• For all the talk about Eternals standing on its own, Marvel still can’t help but tease out upcoming properties.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
• Unable to detect it directly, astronomers tease out clues by studying dust that has been aligned by the magnetic field and the light that passes through this dust.
  — Jay Bennett, WIRED, 28 July 2024
• Coach Jim Montgomery will aim to tease out more of that shoot-first urge, which could prove tricky given that Pastrnak (league-high 407 shots last season) likely will ride on his right side.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
• The aim was to tease out exactly how these differences in DNA might contribute to the changes in brain structure and behavior that are the hallmarks of the condition.
  — Amit Katwala, Wired, 21 Feb. 2022
• John and his colleagues are in the process of analyzing their two decades of health data to try to tease out the potential effects of climate on malaria cases.
  — Zoya Teirstein, Vox, 30 May 2024
• Julian’s quest for answers will only lure him deeper into this den of vipers, but teasing out Sofia’s intentions may be the steamiest — and deadliest — game of all.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024