Sentence examples for it's banter from inspiring English sources
In an attempt to show a stereotypical collection of freshers the show has created an exaggerated reality, including the lad who thinks it's "banter" to catch an STI, the girl who sleeps around to fit in and the introvert who is seen as clingy and a loser for experiencing loneliness.
And also, you wouldn't want to get sauce down your new shirt, and the bouncer'd probably nick a bit of the beef and pass it off as banter and you'd be powerless to do anything because he's the bouncer and it was just banter and you're the clubber and he's the bouncer and if he says it's banter then it's definitely banter and you'd better suck it up and watch him eat your crispy chili beef.
The modern way of describing it is "banter".
On the air yesterday, it was banter as usual.
It is banter as bonding exercise, a way of forging a connection by sharing laughs.
Banter, that was all it was: criticism, the essential competitive relations of writers in New York — all of it was banter, engaged in by extremely witty wives of analysts at dinner parties.
And this is not very far from the troll on social media, or the catcaller in the street, claiming it is "banter" or "free speech".
"I used it maybe flippantly, maybe thinking it was banter, but it was only by awareness and interaction and actually understanding the effect and power of the words that I was using on someone who is homosexual that I got an understanding and started to address my base-level language use.
On Monday South Africa team manager Dr Mohammed Moosajee insisted: "Text messages were sent but it was banter".
"Text messages were sent, but it was banter," said Dr Mohammed Moosajee.
