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Use banteringly in a sentence

Definition of banteringly:

  • (adverb) in a bantering (teasing/joking) fashion; "he spoke to her banteringly"

Sentence Examples:

Noting the change of countenance which I sought in vain to control, he went on banteringly.

"There would be too many young ladies made unhappy through losing you," she answered banteringly.

"There is a good deal of romance in your composition, my dear Palmer," said his friend banteringly.

"Perhaps when you ride that horse you will leave me far behind," Sun Bird said, banteringly.

Poster had added, banteringly: "If one may congratulate a man upon taking a descent like that."

She banteringly asked, though it was easy to perceive that she longed for an affirmative reply.

Chapman banteringly asked me to try it, and I accepted the challenge, urging him to follow.

I said, banteringly, rather with the object of turning attention from my share in this acquisition.

He asked banteringly, as though the subject he chose were the most apt one imaginable for jest.

"Well, of course, my dear fellow," he said banteringly, "you know the lady better than I do."

"It costs nothing," he answered banteringly; "which explains why so many people are willing to give it."

He said banteringly, in allusion to the weapon the other always carried during the last few days.

I kept banteringly telling him that, unless his behavior improved, I should be forced to picture him as the villain.

He spoke banteringly, with no perception of the gravity in his wife's desire to share in this phase of his life.

To carry this on the proposed trip was too great a risk, and I was asked banteringly to act as banker.

When we reached the end of the hard road he was a little ahead, and I banteringly called to him to 'repeat.'

They all spoke banteringly and with good-tempered irony, as one might speak of something settled and past curing or dispute.

Knowing that the foreman owned no dogs, he asked, half banteringly: "You're not getting ready for a trip, I hope?"

"You should know better than I," she replied, banteringly; "perhaps he is pining for the girl he left behind him."

Laughed Ursula, pointing banteringly at the drum slung over her brother's shoulder, "and are your weapons as dangerous as my brother's?"

Her mother surveyed the girl up and down with arch approval, and went on banteringly: "So you've brought 'em round!"

Hooker often sent his friend plants from his own garden, sometimes banteringly including one which would "flourish in any neglected corner."

He wondered vaguely if it had anything to do with travel and the process of "polishing" to which Cary so often banteringly referred.

The students would greet her with shouts and form a circle about her, while she would banteringly call them her friends.

As the two craft fell away again Tom waved his hand banteringly to Alvarez, now out on deck and being searched for weapons.

He spoke banteringly, with a laugh, but something in his voice told her that he was far more in earnest than his manner indicated.

I regretted his indifference, and asked him, banteringly, if his dislike extended equally to the early masters of the pen and to those of the brush.

"I say, fellows," called Dave Darrin, banteringly, "we'd better get back to the hall if we don't want to find other fellows going home with our girls."

His heavy face looked gloomy, and Francis banteringly asked him if he was too much wearied by the hunt that day, receiving a grave nod in reply.

This good father loved to hear Don Juan relate his youthful adventures, and would say, banteringly, as he lavished money upon him: "Only amuse yourself, my dear child!"

She spoke banteringly, but her eyes had a curious way of growing large and earnest as if they were anxious to counteract the lack of seriousness in her voice.

It was true that what he banteringly termed her romantic sadness possessed her at times, but it served as a shadow to throw into sharper relief an almost incredible happiness.

"Please don't," laughed Carroll, half banteringly, half in earnest, for it would never do to have it leak out that a girl had not only discovered his identity, but his mission.

With a humorous sadness Pierre measured the large remainder of the one only piece she had touched, and then would have spoken banteringly to her; but she had slid away into her own room.