How to Use bandy in a Sentence

bandy

verb
  • And those are some of the sites that have been bandied about for quite a long time.
    — John Byrne, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2019
  • This idea has been bandied about quite a bit, but no school has pulled the trigger.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The names will be bandied about for the next month and a half are obvious.
    — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2019
  • The players are well aware of which names are being bandied about in the rumor mill.
    — Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 24 Feb. 2020
  • By 1918, the concept of the tank had been bandied about for some time.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Myths and hype and more hype get bandied about every spring around here, this year is no exception.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2018
  • When Nagy found out Trubisky’s hip injury will be bandied about.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Both claims are false, despite being widely bandied about in the media.
    — Mike Watson, National Review, 23 Mar. 2020
  • But not those bandied about in the general mock-draft populous.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • These were all names bandied about in reports forecasting the inevitable trade.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Nothing has ever been proven, but claims of bribery and match fixing have been bandied about ever since.
    — SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • And then in terms of the vaccine, people have bandied around numbers like a year to 18 months away.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 5 Apr. 2020
  • The idea has been bandied about in small circles of transportation advocates for years.
    — Adam Vaccaro, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The belief that fine dining is waning is frequently bandied about.
    — Nancy Miller, The Courier-Journal, 10 Oct. 2017
  • The phrase bandied about after Ranieri's sacking was 'player power'.
    — SI.com, 11 May 2018
  • What was never, for instance, bandied about in any of these settlement talks was an apology.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Mar. 2018
  • It has not yet been disclosed how much the transfer will be worth although a £60m fee is the number which has been bandied about.
    — SI.com, 7 June 2018
  • There are a lot of ideas that are being bandied about during the primary season, and that’s exactly what this season is for.
    — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The second essay was bandied about on the electric Twitter machine for most of Friday.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 10 Mar. 2017
  • There are many contenders, their names bandied about in German newspapers and magazines in recent days.
    — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Such a possibility seems silly but has still been bandied about in early trade-deadline discussions.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • But two of the most intriguing names being bandied about are Peyton Manning and Tim Tebow.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 2 Jan. 2018
  • William Skurla, the archeparch (roughly equivalent to an archbishop) of Pittsburgh is a name that has been bandied about.
    — Taylor Wofford, Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2014
  • And yet it is increasingly being bandied about in connection with the spread of the novel coronavirus that emerged from China.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 12 Feb. 2020
  • DeAndre Jordan's name has been bandied about as a rim protector, but the Clippers are winning again.
    — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The term has been bandied about in recent months, from Seoul to Washington to Beijing, yet there's little agreement on what each side means.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 23 May 2018
  • That's an idea that experts, including Russian scientist Igor Yeltsov, have bandied about in the last few decades.
    — National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2016
  • Ritchie has been bandied about by Republicans eager to knock off Stabenow, a Democrat who is expected to run for her fourth term next year.
    — Todd Spangler, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Of the many names bandied about in the past week for these six openings – and there are multiple candidates for each of them – there seemingly aren’t many retreads being targeted.
    — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Authenticity is a word bandied around by commissioners and execs, but in the case of the Osbournes its use feels justified.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2025

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