Get to know Bantering better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like facetious or humorous.
Bantering meaning
- teasing
- joking; jesting
Using Bantering
- The main meaning on this page is: teasing | joking; jesting
- Useful related words include: facetious, tongue-in-cheek, humorous, humourous.
- In the example corpus, bantering often appears in combinations such as: bantering with, and bantering.
Context around Bantering
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bantering
- In this selection, "bantering" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, heard, seen, room, commentary and proving stand out and add context to how "bantering" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include be heard bantering in the and be seen bantering with his. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bantering" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bantering
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Judge Engoron could be seen bantering with his clerk. (9 words)
Masego alternated between singing, rapping, playing the saxophone and bantering with the audience. (13 words)
Prosecutors played the clip for jurors, and a woman and man can be heard bantering in the background. (18 words)
Carroll alleged last year that Mr. Trump raped her in the 1990s after the two encountered each other in a Manhattan luxury department store and went into a dressing room, bantering about trying on a bodysuit. (36 words)
Too much of the bantering and bickering has a sitcom vibe to it, Harrelson’s tantrums about having to drive a minivan being the worst; I had Tim Allen flashbacks, which is not good. (34 words)
Of course, there are also periods of laughter and bantering, proving that they are not only compatible musicians, but dear friends as well,” said Fr. Doug Neel. (27 words)
Example sentences (10)
Prosecutors played the clip for jurors, and a woman and man can be heard bantering in the background.
Judge Engoron could be seen bantering with his clerk.
Carroll alleged last year that Mr. Trump raped her in the 1990s after the two encountered each other in a Manhattan luxury department store and went into a dressing room, bantering about trying on a bodysuit.
The erudite business people expressed shock at the offensive bantering of some Nigerians at the break of the news of Abba Kyari’s demise.
Masego alternated between singing, rapping, playing the saxophone and bantering with the audience.
Too much of the bantering and bickering has a sitcom vibe to it, Harrelson’s tantrums about having to drive a minivan being the worst; I had Tim Allen flashbacks, which is not good.
We begin in the Garden of Eden, with Crowley and Aziraphale providing painful bantering commentary as they watch Adam and Eve.
Of course, there are also periods of laughter and bantering, proving that they are not only compatible musicians, but dear friends as well,” said Fr. Doug Neel.
We first meet Einstein bantering with his officious assistant Helen (Mindy Shaw) about Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
Filmed before a live audience, the show consisted of Marx bantering with the contestants and ad-libbing jokes before briefly quizzing them.
Common combinations with bantering
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: