Example Sentences

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The most winning player of all time — Ken Jennings — is currently hosting the show, and he and Ms. Schneider have bantered to the delight of the audience.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022

Bankhead was reported to have bantered once during a jovial argument, “Not only are you wrong, Robinson, but you are loud wrong!”

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2015

Non-profits advocating for veterans, government officials and to a lesser extent, the Fortune 500, have bantered about many well intentioned but half -baked solutions.

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 15, 2011

One knows another, in her place, would have bantered this off in that modern attitude towards love which is a horror, boisterously expressed, of admitting love as an emotion.

From This Freedom by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

He would have bantered on in this strain up to the very nose of the enemy, but the man in his path was utterly unresponsive to his humour.

From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil