tease something out

Examples of teased

teased

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Residents also played practical jokes and teased one another.
As we correlate the drawings with the model, the scale continually leaps in our imaginations, and we feel teased by the artists.
Fragments were teased apart, but no identifiable female fragments were found.
Likewise, the region of the vitellaria was teased with a fine needle and vitelline cells were collected with a micropipette.
Consider, however, the possibility that certain animals might be conceptualized in terms of their suitability for being teased or baited.
Adultery blurred the lines between civil and correctional jurisdictions and needs to be teased out more fully.
Worms used for chromatographic studies were teased in saline and the released eggs were removed using a micropipette.
They exist at a scale above the individual neuron, but well below that which can be teased apart with any imaging technology currently available.
Dissected ovaries were teased apart with sterile tweezers in a large drop of saline under a low-power microscope.
The uteri of 10 worms were teased to obtain eggs.
He had a wicked sense of humour with which he teased the pompous world of architects and the writings in this book are a delight.
The variations in the way self-interest is expressed has, perhaps, been insufficiently teased out in the empirical research.
Women of such repute are generally considered less desirable wives, and indeed, she is teased for not having found a husband yet.
In teased retina preparations for microspectrophotometry, cone rows of various lengths were occasionally found settled flat on their sides.
Using mounted needles the reproductive tissue and digestive gland were teased apart to ascertain the presence/absence of periwinkle brood or trematode presence.
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