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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The tantalizing smell of barbecue was in the air.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And animal skull fossils sometimes yield tantalizing evidence of transitional metabolic natures.
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Herbert's notes give only tantalizing hints of what happened to the other Jacobson children.
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It was the most tantalizing smell.
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She knew she would not be able to sleep with so much tantalizing information spinning in her mind.
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She saw tantalizing gatherings round the bold rectangle of the dining table.
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There are tantalizing hints in the archaeological record that the Minoans may have written longer, non-bureaucratic texts on parchment.
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Through the fifteenth-century wooden door there is little to detain the visitor, just a few tantalizing traces of eleventh-century frescoes.