378 examples of banter in sentences

Banter = to chaff or make fun of, at this time a new slang word.

" The whole conversation, carried on in low tones, had passed under cover of noisy mirth, snatches of song, banter, and gigglings; nobody paid heed to the two men talking in a corner.

Had Winter stopped a few yards off, he would have begun some banter and drawn him away from the pool.

The Conversations add little to what we already know of Byron's religious opinions; nor is it easy to say where he ceases to be serious and begins to banter, or vice versa.

Let's have some creative banter.

A true-born Englishman's a contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction; A banter made to be a test of fools, Which those that use it justly ridicules; A metaphor invented to express A man akin to all the universe.

"That isn't her only expression," announced Uncle John, who loved these little exchanges of good-humored banter.

' It vexed me to hear his banter, and to think how I had let my secret out, so I did not answer, and we sat by the embers for a while without speaking, while the wind still blew through the cave like a funnel.

And then I thought once more of Grace, and how the laugh would be on my side now, for all Master Ratsey's banter about her being rich and me being poor! Fourscorefeetdeepwellnorth.

he asked, keenly and without any of his frequent banter.

He'd banter Apostolic castings, As you jeer fishermen at Hastings.

Both of these brothers possessed a keen sense of humor and delighted in playful banter.

So ever since it has been a topic of banter between Sidney and me.

At any rate, they could not stand the banter of B.J., and had soon joined him in the soaking storm outside.

They cannot see the grief of life beneath its grin; they cannot detect the scorn or the pity that is hidden in joke or banter; neither can they always find out the joke or banter that is covered by a solemn face; and many a sincere believer has been deemed an atheist because he burlesqued hypocrites with their own gravity.

They cannot see the grief of life beneath its grin; they cannot detect the scorn or the pity that is hidden in joke or banter; neither can they always find out the joke or banter that is covered by a solemn face; and many a sincere believer has been deemed an atheist because he burlesqued hypocrites with their own gravity.

But he took all his friend's banter with a smile of quiet enjoyment, and sometimes a more than usually outrageous sally would send him into convulsions of laughter, whose resounding peals filled the house with their echoes.

All sentiment, all glowing memories, all the music of girlish footfalls, all echoes of laughter and banter and rollicking mirth, and tenderly uttered vows would be gone.

Their letters "never pretend to be more than the gay and cynical banter of those who bring to the perils of life at the Front an incurable habit of humour, and they are typical of that brave spirit, essentially English, that makes light of the worst that fate can send."

Time draws his finger o'er the scene; But I cannot forget between The Thing to me you once have been Each sportive sally, wild escape, The scoff, the banter, and the jape, And antics of my gamesome Ape.

He was conscious of the power of his intellect, and he liked to bring it to bear on what was before him; he liked to probe things to the bottom, and see how far his companion in conversation was able to go; but ready as he was with either argument or banter he never, unless provoked, forced the proof of his power on others.

"Why, mother, what's all this?" she began, in a tone of gentle banter, as she stroked the helpless hands.

The memory of Stillman's air of delicate banter as he emphasized the hour for beginning his business venture struck Claire ironically the more she pondered his words.

Never in any place in the world was there more freedom of speech touching the superstitions of men, and never were they treated with more banter and contempt.

The "Argument" is written in a vein of satirical banter; but the Swiftian cynicism permeates every line.

378 examples of  banter  in sentences