How To Use badinage In A Sentence
- The air was full of good-natured chaff and badinage between persons who had never seen each other before and never expected to again.
- The badinage is the young man's defect in art; the brag is his defect in nature. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 30, 1892
- You can even send us single sentences on ideas to save the NHS: Phil will then weave them into his badinage.
- Home could feel terribly quiet and empty after the cosy badinage of the office. LOST CHILDREN
- He has to walk, trot, canter, gallop, and "tripple" all around the laager several times, amidst the badinage and laughter of the burghers, and he gets enough "chaff" during the journey to last the biggest horse in England a lifetime. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
- Her novels are people-centred, using anecdote and badinage, and she was early inspired by E. Welty.
- It is a laddish, locker-room badinage that I remember with indulgent nostalgia from my days playing college rugby; we, too, thought we were a great team but I'm not sure that the future of the country ought to have been entrusted to us.
- The option to close commenting after the cut-off would be lower maintenance, but then we'd lose such witty badinage as evidenced by my post on big, strong boys.
- After an interlude of witty badinage, Ginger departs, and Fred sprinkles sand on the floor of Horace's suite and dances her to sleep.
- It is a laddish, locker-room badinage that I remember with indulgent nostalgia from my days playing college rugby.
