How to Use titillate in a Sentence

titillate

verb

• And the smell of Shepherd's pie wasn't there to titillate the senses.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2020
• Both titillating and fun, this work turned out to be a good bridge between the Mozart works.
  — Elijah Ho, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2017
• How does a chef create, and then plate, dishes that titillate the taste buds and dazzle the eyes?
  — Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 15 May 2021
• Their intent wasn't to titillate anglers with tall tales about big fish, but to teach them how to catch fish.
  — Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
• Big shows in New York and London are titillating but can wear you out on day one.
  — Cator Sparks, House Beautiful, 19 Mar. 2019
• Think for a moment about the fears and threats that titillate Americans.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• The stories, in other words, should do more than titillate.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2021
• This scene aims to titillate — Christian ties up Ana's wrists and blindfolds her with her shirt, then grabs an ice cube.
  — Mallory Schlossberg, Redbook, 8 Feb. 2018
• The action swarms and surges, but it’s not intended to titillate.
  — Washington Post, 27 July 2022
• But there was more to her books than these titillating tidbits.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
• When Anna Nicole Smith died, also from an overdose, in 2007, the world was titillated by the details of her life and demise.
  — Courtney E. Smith, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
• Think: a whole lot of T&A meant to titillate men with barely a thought spared for whether the women featured really got off too.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 19 Dec. 2017
• Class and race collide and titillate the tabloid-reading public: a poor man laying claim to a great fortune, supported by the son of a slave.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• Like a Marvel movie or a Taylor Swift album, the show plants Easter eggs to titillate devotees.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• These pieces were designed less to soberly inform than to titillate and transport.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
• New Yorkers like to titillate one another with stories about sightings of rats as big as dogs.
  — Charlie Hamilton James, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• Modern art was born at the height of colonialism, and images of Africa titillated the middle classes like little else.
  — María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• The media often seeks ‘to titillate rather than to education and inform’,’’ Thomas wrote, quoting a phrase from a 1981 Supreme Court opinion.
  — Robert Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2019
• The trailer also teases a titillating scene where Art and Patrick both kiss Tashi in a hotel room after a tournament.
  — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 20 June 2023
• The tidal surges that titillated and terrified storm watchers with equal measure will temper as heavy rains and high winds roll into the weekend forecast.
  — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Baskin wants to clarify — and also expand, and titillate, on that tease.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
• These are unabashedly voyeuristic films made with no other purpose than to titillate.
  — James H. Dygert, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2023
• But the specter of adding Rendon for the long term or Josh Donaldson as a mid-range solution while trading Turner or moving him to second base is titillating.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
• Where those three aimed to titillate, though, Lil Nas X wanted to demonstrate: This is what having a gay pop star could actually look like — at least one version, anyway.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2021
• Jackson’s story on Stern’s radio show was titillating, but not new.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
• Some highlights that titillated our lizard brains the most: Daryl’s back on his motorcycle, leading a horde of zombies and making a lot of boxes explode.
  — Laura Bradley, HWD, 22 Oct. 2017
• Lurid and titillating, the film is full of perverse details of heinous crimes and marked by a seductively ambiguous bond that forms between the young agent-to-be, Clarice Starling, and the brilliant monster Lecter.
  — Bruce Weber, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
• There's a kind of kinetic neon nihilism to Titane that can certainly be read on some level as provocation for its own sake; a willful urge to shock and titillate.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• Thomas shoots herself, the Beauties had an original context and purpose, which was to titillate largely male consumers.
  — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• We are left intrigued and titillated as the film’s tonal zigzagging descends into a delicious, deplorable, rich-person farce.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Aug 2024