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  • All the banter meant I ended up being so late I only had time to eat half my egg and no time to clear up.  (source)
    banter = amusing conversation
  • Soon he is taking Marie-Laure along on various errands again, teasing her about the mountains of sugar she spoons into her coffee or bantering with warders about the superiority of his brand of cigarettes.  (source)
    bantering = engaging in amusing conversation
  • It turned out he couldn't sustain his side either: the witty banter, the clever games, the romance, and the wooing.  (source)
    banter = clever conversation
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  • After the evening meal I don't eat and the forced banter and the minuscule awkward silences that drop between our sentences,  (source)
    banter = amusing conversation
  • Will and Nico sat shoulder to shoulder, bantering good-naturedly.†  (source)
    bantering = engaging in amusing conversation
  • As Jake bantered he pulled more papers from his briefcase.  (source)
    bantered = engaged in amusing conversation
  • Now you're arguing politics," the first voice said banteringly.†  (source)
  • All the while this ceaseless activity was going on there was a strange uproar—bawl and bellow, the shock of heavy bodies meeting and falling, the shrill jabbering of the vaqueros, and the shouts and banterings of the cowboys.†  (source)
  • Encheiresin natures, this Chemistry names, Nor knows how herself she banters and blames!†  (source)
    banters = engages in amusing conversation
  • "Indeed, sir," answered Jones, "I scorn the character of a banterer.†  (source)
    banterer = someone who engages in amusing conversation
  • In the morning Miri snapped on her radio, but instead of jokey morning banter and pop tunes, she heard the news that a third plane had crashed in Elizabeth.  (source)
    banter = engage in amusing conversation
  • "What's the matter?" his father asked, voice light and bantering now, the same kind of voice he used with Adam's mother during her bad times.†  (source)
    bantering = engaging in amusing conversation
  • Joe and the men bantered lightheartedly, as if all of them really believed the checks were good.†  (source)
    bantered = engaged in amusing conversation
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