Example sentences for: banter

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

  • The scenes between Cusack and Keener boast the best emasculating banter since Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy , and when Lotte and Maxine begin to communicate erotically through Malkovich's body, the film becomes a transsexual (and transcendental) screwball comedy.

  • Culturebox knows from having once casually tossed the words "Final Solution" into some light German cocktail banter that, in Germany, you don't invoke a name like Speer's in vain.

  • When the diving suits go on, the witty banter stops.

  • I was to be introduced by a Peace Corps palWhose easy, open California waysHad brought a water system to the villageAnd an up-to-date word to its vocabulary.Every other guttural spillway of ArabicIncluded a carefully enunciated "awesome,"The speaker bright-eyed with his own banter.We sat on a pair of Kurt Cobain beach towelsAnd under a High-Quality Quartz Clock,The plastic butterflies attached to whose handsSeemed to keep time with those in my stomach.

  • You see it in Sullivan's banter with the working-class musicians in the pit and in Gilbert's with the uppity actors (the movie's posturing middle class), whom he drills on pronunciation and poise.


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