Example Sentences

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Rage At Nonohay, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, natives and their families danced rustically last week; banteringly told one Lieut.

From Time Magazine Archive

This time the President, obviously delighted by the boy's recovery, told him banteringly: "You didn't pay me much mind when I came to see you last October."

From Time Magazine Archive

“Now, boy,” he said banteringly, “don’t you go up there and fall into that lake.”

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

"Now you're arguing politics," the first voice said banteringly.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

“You don’t feel that now,” he said banteringly.

From The Bigamist by Young, F.E. Mills