Sample Sentences forrepartee (auto-selected)
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He smiled then laughed heartily, as if he'd just realized anew the humor in his repartee.† (source)
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He probably liked her long blonde hair and her flirtatious repartee, something Lilian lacked completely.† (source)
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I related the incident I'd seen helping Jess transfer their frozen food from their freezer to ours—the way Harold snapped from rage to repartee without even a moment to collect himself.† (source)
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Their booth did not have so many customers as did the other booths where the tootling laugh of Maybelle Merriwether sounded and Fanny Elsing's giggles and the Whiting girls' repartee made merriment.† (source)
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Mr. Rochester, allow me to disown my first answer: I intended no pointed repartee: it was only a blunder.† (source)
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His Royal Highness had laughed until the tears streamed down his cheeks at Blakeney's foolish yet funny repartees.† (source)
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As silken as the sea breeze, as buttery as sunlight, the lithe young women in the thong bikinis pretended to be enthralled by the monosyllabic repartee of two steroid-thickened suitors, the latest in a string of beach-boy Casanovas to take their shot.† (source)
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—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany, than you will hear over the half-inch white cedar of the whale-boat, when thus hung in hangman's nooses; and, like the six burghers of Calais before King Edward, the six men composing the crew pull into the jaws of death, with a halter around every neck, as you may say.† (source)
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Kate turned for some quick repartee, but kept on walking, leaving the professor with her luminous smile to think about.† (source)
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Conway enjoyed the measured yet agile repartees which his good-humored ragging of the Chinese very often elicited.† (source)
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"Don't be a pain" and "Takes one to know one" are standard repartee among girls, but I go much farther than that.† (source)
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Nothing angered and mortified me so much as the queen's dwarf; who being of the lowest stature that was ever in that country (for I verily think he was not full thirty feet high), became so insolent at seeing a creature so much beneath him, that he would always affect to swagger and look big as he passed by me in the queen's antechamber, while I was standing on some table talking with the lords or ladies of the court, and he seldom failed of a smart word or two upon my littleness; against which I could only revenge myself by calling him brother, challenging him to wrestle, and such repartees as are usually in the mouths of court pages.† (source)
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But the situation seemed to call for witty repartee.† (source)
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Northerton did not very well relish the sarcasm of Jones; but he thought the provocation was scarce sufficient to justify a blow, or a rascal, or scoundrel, which were the only repartees that suggested themselves.† (source)
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Chicago delighted in such repartee—for the most part.† (source)
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The human was trying to engage a troll in macho repartee!† (source)
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