How to Use titillating in a Sentence

titillating

adjective

• The images and the language are crude and titillating, meant to fill seats and make a quick buck.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2015
• All the talk of panties was too titillating, too gauche.
  — oregonlive.com, 28 June 2019
• 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
• In many ways, the show is a meta version of Springer’s TV program: banal and titillating.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
• There, things took a more titillating turn and revelers ended the evening with an ideal balance of naughty and nice.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 17 Dec. 2018
• Fans will look back at this pick as a vital, if not titillating, selection.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2018
• Under normal circumstances, this scene would have been the most titillating moment in the film.
  — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 8 May 2020
• Just the titillating sounds of a random man whispering not-so-sweet nothings into my ear.
  — Rachel Khona, Allure, 23 Apr. 2019
• In fact, the Joseph situation might be even more titillating.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
• Worse, they're fueled by the logic that possession alone is no longer titillating.
  — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 1 Oct. 2019
• Where to go next is never in question, and the sightlines propel you forward with titillating but nondistracting peeks at what’s ahead.
  — Brian P. Kelly, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2020
• The founders divorced in 2015, some titillating details of which became public.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 24 July 2017
• In recent months, the directorate’s Twitter account has become some of the most titillating reading in Kenya.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021
• To distill her down to a single titillating picture does a disservice to the breadth of her accomplishments.
  — Mallory Andrews, Esquire, 28 Dec. 2016
• There’s obviously a lot of very titillating parts, but for whatever reason, the part that sticks out is her disdain for parmesan cheese.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 29 Oct. 2020
• For 20-plus years, Puffy has clotheslined his foes with his unprecedented success and titillating ideas.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2018
• In addition to the titillating marketing of the naked experience, the Alise is playing up something a bit more wholesome.
  — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Given the source material, Instinct could have become a titillating, trashy Fifty Shades of Grey-style erotic thriller.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2019
• But these are little more than titillating carnival rides compared to true space travel.
  — Andrew Maynard, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2017
• Though times were more dangerous for us queers decades ago — and still are to some extent today, especially trans people of color — the past was also more titillating.
  — Allison Steinberg, Washington Post, 10 June 2019
• Nevertheless, the single is perhaps made more unique with just Tyler's raspy voice integrated with the titillating barrage of sounds.
  — Alexandra Holterman, Billboard, 19 July 2017
• When is a photograph of nude bodies artistic or titillating?
  — Barbara Ortutay, SFChronicle.com, 17 Jan. 2020
• And thus, is thoroughly qualified to take on the equal parts titillating and terrifying task of becoming a Manson girl.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2018
• When Kitt as Catwoman interrupts the affair, her skintight, shimmery noir catsuit is a titillating, sharp gasp against all that dull prettiness.
  — Scott Calonico, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2022
• But even a titillating visible nipple isn’t as direct as the newest high-octane trend: showing one’s underboob in an extreme crop top.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2017
• The aftermath isn’t quite as titillating as the disappearance.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• Even if the focus would have been on less titillating matters, pointing out that members of Congress also spent campaign funds for personal use — breaking the law, in other words — wouldn’t have won Hunter any friends on Capitol Hill.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2019
• On the other hand, the demonstrations of the products were remarkably matter-of-fact, not much more titillating than listening to a marketing rep explain how a dongle could be used to connect a laptop to a 4K display.
  — Lauren Goode, Wired, 8 Jan. 2020
• Breaking the movie into distinct acts, Anderson weaves in an abundance of wry humor, such as Goldblum's character always having some titillating new gossip to share that he's picked up via the dog grapevine.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
• The Manson girl mythology had everything pop culture in 1969 could want: the gruesome killing of a movie star, beautiful young girl murderers, the counterculture gone wild, and a titillating hint of a hippie-ish free love ethos.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 8 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024