English vocabulary examples in context: banter
Vocabulary in context: banter -- Example 1.
'Oh, don't you begin bantering him,' said mamma.'He is probably a good deal cleverer than all three of you girls put together.'
Vocabulary in context: banter -- Example 2.
The sisters had never thought of the money question up to that moment, but Fred Bullock bantered them with graceful gaiety about it during their forenoon's excursion; and they had risen not a little in their own esteem by the time when, the morning amusement over, they drove back to dinner.
Vocabulary in context: banter -- Example 3.
He was too old to listen to the banter of the assistant surgeon and the slang of the youngsters, at which old O'Dowd, with his bald head and red face, laughed quite easily.
Vocabulary in context: banter -- Example 4.
The fondness of Ruth, which was scarcely disguised, for the company of agreeable young fellows, who talked nothings, gave Alice opportunity for no end of banter.
Vocabulary in context: banter -- Example 5.
He didn't fancy Philip's banter, and when the latter had gone out, and Ruth asked, 'Why don't you take up medicine, Mr. Brierly?'
Vocabulary in context: banter -- Example 6.
They were always talking in the Row, everlastingly gossiping, bantering and sarcastically praising things, and going on in a style which was a curious commingling of earnest and persiflage.
Vocabulary in context: banter -- Example 7.
'And what a regiment it was, too,' cried Ilya Petrovitch, much gratified at this agreeable banter, though still sulky.'
Vocabulary in context: banter -- Example 8.
It is there that they amuse themselves, and that they jest, and that they banter, and that they make sport of France!
Vocabulary in context: banter -- Example 9.
To tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to dress her would prolong their banter and insistence.
