repartee

Example Sentences

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He followed it with a succession of intensely theatrical divertissements, often revolving around unexpected intellectual conceits or bizarre juxtapositions and featuring brilliant dialogue, puns, repartee, double meanings and misunderstandings.

From BBC

He also knew some of comedian Bob Hope’s writers, and soon the “cooking” line was popping up in the repartee of Hope, the riffs of Jack Benny and that Looney Tunes cartoon.

From Los Angeles Times

For the older among us, more and more of our favorite movie catchphrases are ready to board that boat that crosses the historical reference Rubicon, from the realm of witty repartee to cultural oblivion.

From Washington Post

The elaborate suits have been tailored, the repartee prescripted in preparation for music’s biggest night.

From Seattle Times

It also gives occasion to consider Cavett’s role in TV culture as an erudite, risk-taking and durable presence whose guests came on to engage in thoroughgoing, often contentious discussion with a dash of witty repartee.

From New York Times