How to Use titillate in a Sentence
titillate
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And the smell of Shepherd's pie wasn't there to titillate the senses.
—Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2020
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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
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How does a chef create, and then plate, dishes that titillate the taste buds and dazzle the eyes?
—Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 15 May 2021
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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
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Big shows in New York and London are titillating but can wear you out on day one.
—Cator Sparks, House Beautiful, 19 Mar. 2019
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Think for a moment about the fears and threats that titillate Americans.
—Robert Pearl, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
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The stories, in other words, should do more than titillate.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2021
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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
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The action swarms and surges, but it’s not intended to titillate.
—Washington Post, 27 July 2022
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But there was more to her books than these titillating tidbits.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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These pieces were designed less to soberly inform than to titillate and transport.
—Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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These are unabashedly voyeuristic films made with no other purpose than to titillate.
—James H. Dygert, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2023
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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
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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
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Jackson’s story on Stern’s radio show was titillating, but not new.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Thomas shoots herself, the Beauties had an original context and purpose, which was to titillate largely male consumers.
—New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
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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
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