Sentence examples for easy repartee from inspiring English sources
They were friends, compatible co-workers who had an easy repartee.
In contrast to this easy repartee, his guest gave a rambling formal speech, a page of which blew away.
He employed light repartee, cool reasoning, heavy sarcasm and table-pounding harangues in his diplomatic repertoire.
Ms. Keal and Mr. Guncler have an easy comic repartee — it seems as if they have been jawing at each for centuries — but the performances suffer from being a little one-note, and that shows during the more emotional moments.
"Its tediousness, its pretentiousness, its galling sophistication, its gratuitous and easy symbolizing, its ghastly pansy rhetoric and repartee," an enraged Philip Roth wrote in The New York Review of Books.
Mocking the Pakistanis' verbal shuffles, he quipped, "I can change, baby, I can change". His repartee provoked a spontaneous round of audience laughter (making it easier to imagine Kilcullen win over allies in Pakistan, Iraq, or virtually anyplace else).
Imagine the trans-Pacific repartee.
Moral relativism oozed from his lawyerly repartee.
They do not engage in witty repartee.
He remained a master of devastating repartee.
This master of repartee is undone.
