How to Use bandy in a Sentence

bandy

verb

• By 1918, the concept of the tank had been bandied about for some time.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2018
• And those are some of the sites that have been bandied about for quite a long time.
  — John Byrne, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2019
• The names will be bandied about for the next month and a half are obvious.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2019
• This idea has been bandied about quite a bit, but no school has pulled the trigger.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• At least his name is getting bandied about quite a bit.
  — Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke | Wwd, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• The players are well aware of which names are being bandied about in the rumor mill.
  — Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 24 Feb. 2020
• 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
• When Nagy found out Trubisky’s hip injury will be bandied about.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Both claims are false, despite being widely bandied about in the media.
  — Mike Watson, National Review, 23 Mar. 2020
• 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
• But two of the most intriguing names being bandied about are Peyton Manning and Tim Tebow.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 2 Jan. 2018
• The idea has been bandied about in small circles of transportation advocates for years.
  — Adam Vaccaro, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• The second essay was bandied about on the electric Twitter machine for most of Friday.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 10 Mar. 2017
• Landeskog, Matt Duchene and Jarome Iginla are among the most prominent names that have been bandied about among the trade rumors.
  — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 12 Jan. 2017
• City leaders have bandied the idea of a car-free plaza since 2015, about the time that Uber and Lyft vehicles began swarming the road to get from downtown to the Haight district.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 16 July 2019
• The phrase bandied about after Ranieri's sacking was 'player power'.
  — SI.com, 11 May 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 proposal bandied about by a group of science whiz kids in December of 2015 is now an airplane on display on the second floor of the school.
  — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 14 Apr. 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
• The belief that fine dining is waning is frequently bandied about.
  — Nancy Miller, The Courier-Journal, 10 Oct. 2017
• 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 incident is the second in as many weeks where a professor at the University of Oklahoma has bandied about the racial slur.
  — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2020
• Wine collectors regularly bandy about the Saran wrap technique as a way to remove 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA), or cork taint, from a wine.
  — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2017
• What was never, for instance, bandied about in any of these settlement talks was an apology.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Mar. 2018
• Usually a Van Gundy brother is bandied about as a candidate.
  — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2018
• Likewise, there are proposed new AI laws that are being bandied around as potential solutions to keep AI endeavors from going amok on human rights and the like.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Packages of anywhere from $500 billion to $1 trillion have been bandied about, with Democrats predicting massive cuts to payroll and services if the money is not forthcoming.
  — Michael Braga, USA TODAY, 13 May 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024