How to Use titillate in a Sentence

titillate

verb
  • Lawrence did not write those scenes to titillate, though.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • This is not a titillating tell-all, and all the better for it.
    — Cat Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • But there was more to her books than these titillating tidbits.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • That’s got to be titillating to people with that amount of money.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 July 2024
  • How does a chef create, and then plate, dishes that titillate the taste buds and dazzle the eyes?
    — Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 15 May 2021
  • 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
  • And the smell of Shepherd's pie wasn't there to titillate the senses.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The action swarms and surges, but it’s not intended to titillate.
    — Washington Post, 27 July 2022
  • These pieces were designed less to soberly inform than to titillate and transport.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Think for a moment about the fears and threats that titillate Americans.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 11 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • These are unabashedly voyeuristic films made with no other purpose than to titillate.
    — James H. Dygert, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2023
  • The video hit the culture like a neutron bomb and titillated everyone.
    — Touré, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Though a great many are loving the titillating update, some were apparently not fans of the post.
    — Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The result is a genre of prose writing that continues to shock, titillate and entertain.
    — Literary Hub, 30 June 2026
  • Jackson’s story on Stern’s radio show was titillating, but not new.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
  • At the time, there were no algorithms designed to feed you content meant to titillate, provoke or keep your attention.
    — Larry Magid, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • His shows will also include footage from his pole-dancing training that would have helped with a different titillating stunt.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2024
  • The poet titillates, commands by images—and only thus persuades.
    — Elaine L. Wang september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • While men led the team on the field, women’s role in big-time Baptist college football was to titillate and entertain.
    — Hunter M. Hampton / Made By History, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
  • In titillating news, though, one exec revealed that a bonus special episode could potentially be on the cards before then.
    — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2026
  • But the skill in this genre is titillating and intriguing the audience along the way to happily ever after.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 16 May 2024
  • Recent Democratic stars rising out of Texas titillated the base, not the middle let alone the right.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Mar. 2026
  • But there was one American editor who turned his gaze the other way, hoping to elevate rather than titillate.
    — James M. Lundberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2020
  • 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 others followed, and the titillated-horrified crowd quietly walked back into the night.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
  • 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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