Sentence examples for matey from inspiring English sources

Both matey and knowledgeable, she attracts two million listeners a day.

Often it hijacks hours allotted for air-conditioned summitry.Indeed, the matey humour of the links, where competition breeds friendship rather than rivalry, is seen as part of ASEAN's consensual approach.

Government and big business, always close in modern Mexico, grew especially matey in the days of Carlos Salinas, president from 1988 to 1994.

He is almost embarrassingly matey with journalists, often whiling away the evenings in their company, gossiping about football (which he adores) and films.

It can be startlingly matey.

In an attempt at being both matey and encouraging, I said, "What do you think Jackson, do you want to do that one day?" He turned and fixed me with a withering look.

There was just always that matey assumption that you had to support someone.

" Edgerton is still as matey as when I first encountered him for Warrior.

His style moves around from full-on art historian with the "classical" subjects – Christ and the Mona Lisa – to a positively matey tone elsewhere.

Sometimes, the resulting arguments – about the subtly disastrous, matey groupthink that can permeate any such elite on the one hand, and about the particular political aims that the Establishment's current incarnation pursues on the other – get elided, so that even though he acknowledges earlier versions of the same phenomenon, he paints the problems it raises as bound up with a hard right agenda.

His stand-up is typically matey but caustic, ranging across subjects from family to hometowns and football to politics (there is a bit of ranting), but it's in the storytelling that it really shines.