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"Banter" in a Sentence (17 examples)
The conversation started with friendly banter but ended in bruises.
Tom sat at the bar and exchanged some friendly banter with the locals.
Everybody seemed on the best of terms with everybody else, and jokes and banter passed from one to another with the most good-natured freedom.
Her sisters burst out a-laughing, and began to banter her. The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper looked earnestly at Cinderella, and, finding her very handsome, said it was but just that she should try, and that he had orders to let every lady try it on.
It was just friendly banter.
They engaged in friendly banter.
They were engaged in friendly banter.
Tom and Mary were engaged in friendly banter.
Tom and Mary engaged in friendly banter.
Good banter really elevates a homoerotic swordfight.
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I was elected to the Executive Committee of the Vegetarian Society, and made it a point to attend every one of its meetings, but I always felt tongue-tied. Dr. Oldfield once said to me, 'You talk to me quite all right, but why is it that you never open your lips at a committee meeting? You are a drone.' I appreciated the banter. The bees are ever busy, the drone is a thorough idler.
This bullying continuum illustrates the progressive escalation from harmless banter to bullying and criminal behaviours.
Here comes the muſty trader, running over vvith remonſtrances. I muſt banter the cit.
Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day.
Mr. Sweeting was bantered about his stature, he was a little man, a mere boy in height and breadth compared with the athletic Malone, […]
June 1804, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them.
[W]e diverted ourſelves vvith bantering ſeveral other poor Scholars, vvith hopes of being at leaſt his Lordſhip's Chaplains and putting on a Scarf; […]
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