Example Sentences

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I was chaffing them about their row, and I heard the look-out man call out, 'A red light on the port bow, sir!'

From Looking Seaward Again by Runciman, Walter

She was chaffing him about being taken for Meysey Hill, and suggested that he should be presented to me as the millionaire.

From Anna the Adventuress by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

The Archdeacon looked up sharply, thinking this uncalled for; unless, horrible thought! his son knew something of the matter, and was chaffing him.

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.

Well, I was chaffing a new boy, and the new boy happened to be Moncrief's cousin.

From The Hero of Garside School by Panting, J. Harwood, (James Harwood)

The baby sat facing her, as bland as a little image of Buddha, and as unresponsive, but she was chaffing it.

From Change in the Village by Sturt, George