How to Use repartee in a Sentence

repartee

noun

• The two comedians engaged in witty repartee.
• That should set the stage for some spicy courtroom repartee.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
• Some teammates are up for Ramey’s brand of sharp-tongued repartee.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• The stream-of-conscious repartee can come rat-tat-tat-ing at a dizzying pace.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 5 July 2019
• The quicksilver repartee for which Sir Tom is renowned is hushed.
  — The Economist, 13 Feb. 2020
• The plot consists of bits: a fiery slugfest, a pause for bonding, a quick weep, and a patch of jokey repartee, before the slugging returns.
  — Michelle McNamara, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2018
• This was fun to actually get to have some repartee and explore that type of movie.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
• Her repartee between the songs is lively and seasoned with funny stories of her life in the jazz world.
  — Jane Napier Neely, La Cañada Valley Sun, 10 Sep. 2019
• The repartee is part of the job — a job that is inherently intimate.
  — Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 7 Mar. 2021
• At a certain point, however, the repartee ceases and the mystery runs out.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 11 May 2023
• The pleasures remain intact — the gowns, the hats, the posh dinners, the enviable real estate, the sparkling repartee.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2022
• In Britain, their repartee became the sensation du jour.
  — Laurence I. Barrett, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
• Of course, the repartee was all in good fun as both Fallon and Kidman are both happily married.
  — Yvonne Juris, PEOPLE.com, 12 Aug. 2017
• Susan was fun and funny, with a keen sense of humor, great in repartee, and an infectious laugh.
  — courant.com, 17 Nov. 2019
• Listen especially to the repartee of a man and a woman caged together in a hellish union.
  — Lyndall Gordon, New York Times, 17 May 2018
• But both before and after that, there’s lots of thoughtful grown-up repartee between Quinn and her husband.
  — Richard Lipez, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
• But then along came the walking book of quotations known as Adam Rippon, whose repartee is sharper than his skate blades.
  — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2018
• At the high court, that means learning to focus less on the snark and witty repartee of oral arguments and more on the work product that emanates from the court itself.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 30 June 2017
• There wasn’t any loudness or movement or action scenes or witty repartee to get lost in and lean into.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2022
• Matafeo is a comedic delight, a master of both physical high jinks and witty repartee.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2022
• Elsman’s loosey-goosey turn entails plenty of repartee with the audience -- as indeed, does much of Melville’s off-the-cuff staging.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2019
• To peruse them is to imagine the smoky air and enthused or barbed repartee at clannish openings, which of course still occur (with less smoke) in nether and outer reaches of the city.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• There’s the repartee between regulars and shucker, the arm’s-length view of the craft, the way the oyster bar itself comprises its own lair, set apart from the mainstream doings of the restaurant.
  — Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 2 Feb. 2021
• As written, Ned feels like an underdeveloped earnest foil to Chauncey's rat-a-tat repartee.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2017
• Matafeo is a comedic delight, a master of both physical high jinks and witty repartee who deserves to catch the eye of Emmy voters.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
• More than 8,000 people gathered in Birmingham for a common cause: not to trade barbs and witless repartee, but to celebrate the game that they (we) all love.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 30 May 2018
• The language of the play moves between the vernacular and the elevated, informed by the repartee of TV sitcoms as well as by the poetry of William Blake.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 19 June 2022
• There are opportunities here, many of them missed: The two 007s have a playful rivalry at first, and one wishes the script featured more of their repartee.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2021
• And on many public occasions, Leung keeps the repartee to a minimum, amps up the soulful glare and goes long on banal gratitude.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
• The conversation stiffens into repartee, and then into rage.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024