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Meanings of bantering in English
Usage of bantering in English
1
He looked up at the goggling eyes; he heard the bantering voice:
2
She was perfectly impenetrable to the bantering tone in which he spoke.
3
Mr. Masterman attacked her at once in a sort of bantering way.
4
Losing patience, they turned to Pinocchio and said in a bantering tone:
5
After saluting me with ceremonious politeness, he said in a bantering tone:
6
All about him there was the bantering talk of horsemen and grooms.
7
The find startled Inspector Chippenfield out of his air of bantering superiority.
8
She replied in a bantering tone, only half hiding a hurt undernote.
9
Suddenly the bantering gravity with which he spoke fell away from him.
10
Once outside, she suddenly dropped her bantering manner and said quite earnestly:
11
His spirits, which had been astonishingly light during their bantering exchange, sank.
12
His bantering tone, in speaking of his own position, had been successful.
13
It conceals-ashe was wont to do-strongfeeling under the bantering tone.
14
Ms Matafeo and Mr Waititi are already bantering about the movie online.
15
Instantly his attitude of good-natured bantering and pompous boastfulness dropped from him.
16
She is at once passionate, sensuous, politically dutiful, bantering and acutely perceptive.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Bantering through the time
Bantering across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common