Example sentences for: banter

How can you use “banter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But consider the parallels--handles were nothing more than screen names, the banter was a version of chat rooms, and instant community was created from nothing.

  • There are two classes of Star Trek scripts: the Brannon Braga kind, which feature spatial-temporal gimmicks and Generation X banter; and the Michael Piller kind, which focus on interspecies political coups and earthbound (ground-bound?)

  • On the other hand, listening to the banter between gaggles of Glaswegians at, say, their Barras market on any morning of the year is like listening to the discordant yakking of jackdaws around derelict tenement chimneys in the nesting season.

  • Entrapment is an A-list production, but despite Ving Rhames as Connery's enigmatically surly cohort and a bevy of state-of-the-art sensors, cybergizmos, and digital readouts, it can't manage to brush off its B-movie cobwebs or to freshen banter that Rhett would have been too progressive to lay on Scarlett.

  • And where a basic occupation centers on livestock, as in Biblical Judea or parts of the American West or the Australian bush, the stockman's jargon is bound to be a main source of metaphors, whether the subject be marital transgression as in the banter at our picnic, or the Lord's providing for His flock as in the Twenty-third Psalm, or national character as in “Waltzing Matilda.”


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