banter
noun
an exchange of light, playful, teasing remarks; good-natured raillery.
were 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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They were bantering her to bet, which she had as yet refused to do.
From Bred In The Bone 1908 by Thomas Nelson Page
A heavy lurch of the little vessel threw her sprawling on the deck, and I noticed that, while the other natives were bantering her, she was crying bitterly.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
For though cook called him a dear man, it almost seemed at first as if she were bantering him, till it was taken into consideration that every eye forms its own beauty.
From By Birth a Lady by George Manville Fenn
They were bantering Mr. King about his Narragansett excursion, his cousin having maliciously given the party a hint of his encounter with the tide at the Pier...
From Their Pilgrimage by Charles Dudley Warner
I found that the Pew and the Pulpit were bantering each other at a great rate, and seemed determined to tell each one the other's faults.
From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
