banter
noun
an exchange of light, playful, teasing remarks; good-natured raillery.
was bantering
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past progressiveof banter.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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After a morning on the slopes, John was bantering with customers while perusing a catalogue of hooded ninja suits by Airblaster.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2019
Stickney, hale and smiling, was bantering with a woman in a cloak, who, with a monster basket on her arm, was dickering for eight cents' worth of some thing.
From The Monster and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
The mother saw that he was bantering her purposely.
From Mother by Maksim Gorky
The other was bantering without a notion that he approached the truth.
From The Plow-Woman by Eleanor Gates
Philip was never certain when the girl was bantering him; nor, when she was in earnest, how long she would remain in that mind and mood.
From That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner
