repartee

How To Use repartee In A Sentence

• Yeah, he's a pop genius, but his cool, affable swagger and clever repartee are the perfect complement to the more extroverted, outgoing personalities of Dahle and Ms. Case.
• I only regret that I don't have some witty repartee to entertain myself as I write this review, but I think I'm still in shock.
• It allows him to present his laddish repartee as a courageous swipe against repression.
• Thus they jested and reparteed and played one upon another all the while they sat at table. Essays and Miscellanies
• That sort of warm repartee - delivered, as always, with a hearty guffaw - is one of the things Beazley detractors are suspicious about.
• The two slaves were ready at repartee, but the utter simplicity of the sultan displayed a blockishness which blunted all edge. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
• Thus, in the middle of the dinner party, Miles announces that the team of solicitors he works for is called "Nasty, British and Short"; Anna, who bonded with Miles years before over repartee like "you can go assonate yourself", explains puns to Brooke with examples including "there's no business like slow business". There but for the, by Ali Smith – review
• “I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am,” Coulter told the 2,600 people at Jorgensen Auditorium. Think Progress » Bush’s War on Christmas.
• He was guest speaker at the event and entertained the guests with his witty repartee.
• Even though the thugs are armed with knives and chains, Edward is able to rebuff them with witty repartee and by revealing that his chauffeur carries a gun.