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Definition of banter:

  • (noun) light teasing repartee
  • (verb) be silly or tease one another

Sentence Examples:

Good banter abound and rousing humor gallops.

In relaxing moods she indulged in banter.

Inquired his friend, relaxing gladly to banter.

His lips twisted in a bantering grin.

Suggested Lily, in the same bantering tone.

We do not think and banter words.

It was impossible to resist his banter.

Asked he in his drunken bantering way.

The girl paid no heed to the banter.

"Of course you're not in anything," he bantered.

He put the question in a bantering tone.

Her warm voice had a note of banter.

Gerald murmured softly, in a tone of banter.

"I never like to be bantered," returned Carlton.

His tone changed to one of bantering intimacy.

You surely do not mean to banter me?

Queried the stranger, in a quiet bantering tone.

I only banter where you dare be grave.

They regarded each other with bantering smiles.

He had recovered his half bantering manner.

Elderly banter would no longer check her.

Don't mind their banter for a while.

Then Andrew began to banter his companion.

The man answered with a bantering smile.

His banter turned into cold, precise tones.

Sometimes he was firm, sometimes gently bantering.

My tutor ran on, in pleasant banter.

All this banter was amusing to Rose.

Peter was full of banter and nonsense.

They hailed his return with bantering words.

Nobody else dared try and banter King.

He said in a tone of pleasant bantering inquiry.

He began, this time in a tone of banter.

She grew weary of his bantering tone.

It was clear and sweet and bantering.

His bantering humor left him at once.

Returned Richard, in an amused and bantering tone.

Said the deputy chief, in a bantering tone.

The men had ceased to joke and banter.

Aileen paid very little attention to this bantering.

It was Glover's voice again, bland and bantering.

This bantering tone put Frederick out of countenance.

And the little ones joined in the banter.

The tone of banter had not been all.

A little sympathy is needed, even for banter.

He inquired, with a clumsy attempt at banter.

George took their rough banter in excellent part.

He was in a very teasing, bantering mood.

Again he sought for a light, bantering reply.

There was a note of banter in his voice.

The girl ignored her mother's bantering tones.

There was seriousness under his good-natured banter.

"And you said there were no celebrities," he bantered.

They had both dropped their bantering tone.

You only talk as you do to banter me.

Then he broke off into a tone of banter.

The youth's bantering was most unexpectedly interrupted.

Underneath his banter Moss was sincerely moved.

She fixed him with bright bantering eyes.

Dropping his bantering tone, quickly and sternly.

I have used no triumphing banter, which you did.

She asked earnestly, dropping her half-bantering tone.

Dominic addressed her in a low bantering tone.

"Eat hearty," they would sometimes banter one another.

This bantering a single man is very common.

The girl spoke in a somewhat bantering tone.

Nell bantered, turning her happy face to his.

The bantering note vanished from the man's voice.

They bantered him so terribly at the club.

From her eyes the bantering look had gone.

Voices were low, and the banter was gone.

The boy flushed with pleasure at his banter.

He tried to penetrate behind the bantering tone.

I dropped the bantering tone and answered seriously.

Her tone was still of banter and sarcasm.

The banter left his face and voice swiftly.

It was clear Matt could not appreciate banter.

The two parties began to banter each other.

Banter between the sexes begins even in childhood.

Continued the old man in a bantering tone.

The banter gave the captain a shrewd inspiration.

This was said with an air of bantering earnestness.

Asked Max, in a feeble effort to banter her.

He began to perceive the drift of her banter.

Their banter seemed a kind of tonic to him.

Asked the other, in a tone of bantering indifference.

Said Vernon, seeking relief in a light bantering tone.

He was in no humor for their usual banter.

A breeze of bantering applause greeted the old man.

Yates his due, he is expert in light banter.

I chose to overlook the banter in his question.

In 1688 the substantive 'Banter' was up-to-date slang.

They carry on this banter through several letters.

Then I saw that all this was banter.

"Nothing like practical demonstration," bantered the young men.

There was something bantering in the other's tone.

"Score one for the unknown knight," she bantered.

She asked, still in her old bantering mood.

And then the bantering tone was dropped entirely.

He had now resumed his old, bantering tone.