Sentence examples for banter up from inspiring English sources

Yesterday I'd been kept up to speed with developments in the Scottish Premier League and cardiothoracic surgery as we had loudly traded banter up and down our jaunty rambling formation, but as the rockily rutted red-earth track rose and narrowed, the eight of us fell into a silent single column.

Apple is looking for a writer to re-script Siri and take her banter up a notch.

In many ways, every member of the cast of Geordie Shore is Sisyphus, cursed forever to carry the rock of mortal banter up the hill of central Newcastle.

Yes, I feared Monday mornings when the e-mail banter started up and mates piled abuse my way".

They play with and against the Scotland girls in the Super League, so there'll be some friendly rivalry and banter leading up to the finals.

In that spirit, even the PR statement with which they accepted the job was full of knockabout banter, playing up to the image of the two as sniping curmudgeons.

It turns out to be merely the opening salvo in his increasingly odd between-song banter – "calm up everyone, leave it in, leave it in," he offers later – but equally, opening his gig with an assertion of his individuality seems telling.

Frustrated back-and-forth banter cooked up by the screenwriters (Rowland and his co-writer, Helen Barnes) somehow finds freshness in constant reiterations of "where the hell are we?" The film is like Dude Where's My Car? but in a bone-dry outback instead of a parking lot, with no car and very little hope.

Witty banter is showing up in the program books and on the Web site.

Mr. Norton wasn't in the mood for banter, but perked up on the topic of Jennifer Hudson's scheduled performance.

There's not a lot of cutting within scenes, and no "West Wing -velocity banter to clutter up the soundtrack.