How to Use repartee in a Sentence

repartee

noun
  • The two comedians engaged in witty repartee.
  • The stream-of-conscious repartee can come rat-tat-tat-ing at a dizzying pace.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 5 July 2019
  • This was fun to actually get to have some repartee and explore that type of movie.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The quicksilver repartee for which Sir Tom is renowned is hushed.
    — The Economist, 13 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • That’s welcome repartee at any age, much less at Fangio’s 67.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 22 May 2026
  • 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
  • The repartee is part of the job — a job that is inherently intimate.
    — Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Susan was fun and funny, with a keen sense of humor, great in repartee, and an infectious laugh.
    — courant.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • Shawn and Gus' witty repartee was never offset by more than one or two deaths to people per episode.
    — EW.com, 26 Feb. 2024
  • At a certain point, however, the repartee ceases and the mystery runs out.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 11 May 2023
  • How did Betty manage the scenes with Ophelia, with their bawdy repartee?
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But mainly the kids banter in pig Latin or in a screwball repartee fashioned from overheard adult speech.
    — Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • What is clear is their intense bond, the brash intimacy of people addicted to repartee and raised by liars.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026
  • If that’s the sort of sparkling repartee that made it into Rennervations, how mind-numbing was the stuff that got cut?
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • As written, Ned feels like an underdeveloped earnest foil to Chauncey's rat-a-tat repartee.
    — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2017
  • To be sure, Maher’s ready wit and spontaneous repartee as a talk show host were central themes for the parade of chums who praised the honoree.
    — Paul Harris, Variety, 29 June 2026
  • Whitford and Moss slip into a playful repartee that often induces laughter despite the show's grim tone.
    — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 June 2019
  • 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
  • The audience was often in stitches thanks to her witty repartee—and Stewart has given his seal of approval.
    — Billie Schwab Dunn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • All Felicia’s fab frippery and damn-the-torpedoes repartee puts the armor in glamour.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 6 May 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
  • Brooks’s years honing his craft writing prickly characters and witty repartee ensures that not all of this scans as mindless escapism.
    — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2025
  • 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

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