(v. i.) To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mitchell was forced to quit his cabinet post as chief whip over claims he called officers "plebs" during an altercation in Downing Street, which he denies.
(2) They were there for an hour and there was definitely no 'altercation' as this person is making out.
(3) The Ukip leadership contender Steven Woolfe has been discharged from hospital after an altercation with a fellow MEP.
(4) Costa was sent off with six minutes remaining in his side’s 2-0 FA Cup defeat on Saturday after an altercation with Gareth Barry.
(5) Fatal traumatic thrombosis of the left internal carotid artery occurred in a 38-year-old man following minor blunt cervical trauma during an altercation.
(6) On the leaks to the media of the original altercation, which was passed to the Sun, and of an email describing what happened, which has become known as the official log, which was given to the Daily Telegraph, she said that because there was no evidence of payment a jury was likely to decide that it was in the public interest for the events at the Downing Street gate to be made public.
(7) A white man and an African American woman got into a brief altercation over politics, and officers loaded a handful of protesters into an NYPD van, placing their belongings into plastic bags one by one.
(8) Willing to send himself up for advertising campaigns but taking his art extremely seriously, Cantona has at times been repulsed by the media (most obviously in his post-Selhurst Park suspension phase but also in a more recent altercation with a paparazzo in north London) but also used it to his advantage.
(9) Madison’s police chief, Mike Koval, said at a press conference that an officer shot a 19-year-old, who he said was responsible for a recent battery, during an altercation.
(10) But police apparently did not even tape off the area around the altercation – a basic requirement to secure a crime scene and gather forensic evidence.
(11) One man who tried to stop the altercation was also punched.
(12) The incident was not the only altercation at the Trump campaign event on Saturday.
(13) Eric Holder , the US attorney general, said at a press conference in Washington: “Michael Brown’s death, though a tragedy, did not involve prosecutable conduct on the part of officer Wilson.” The decision ended the second half of a politically-charged investigation into Wilson’s shooting of Brown on 9 August following an altercation in a residential side-street.
(14) Hours earlier, Ulivarri’s son, Luís Carlos, 23, had been shot in a bar, and then dragged into the night after an altercation with a group of men presumed to be members of a local drug cartel.
(15) Many street disputes are not gang or even clique related, but the climate of violence created by the gangs, with their ready access to arms, means that a Hobbesian, kill-or-be-killed mentality can afflict even the most minor altercations.
(16) The polarisation of the club’s stands into separate areas that are almost all white and stands that are ethnically mixed proved a backdrop for violent race altercations between the club’s own fans.
(17) The meeting was called ostensibly to clear the air after revelations about an altercation Mitchell had had with Metropolitan police officers in Downing Street, when he was the government's chief whip.
(18) The altercation in Downing Street on 19 September last year took place after two police officers on duty refused to let him ride his bicycle through the gates.
(19) Alan Pardew denied head-butting Hull's David Meyler in a touchline altercation but conceded he would be "stupid" not to expect the Football Association to come down hard on him in the coming days.
(20) The officer chased the man, an altercation ensued and the man fired at the officer, the police chief said.
Bandy
Definition:
(n.) A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
(n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
(n.) The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
(v. t.) To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
(v. t.) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
(v. t.) To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.
(v. i.) To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.
(a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
Example Sentences:
(1) Words like "trivialisation" and "stunt" were bandied about, especially after the Channel 4 documentary that dwelt as much on the players as the results.
(2) Ministers bandied about their theories – a force too focused on health and safety and human rights; perhaps some sympathy with the protestors or just plain incompetence.
(3) They have buckets and trowels as they're going clamming, and Popeye leaves first, navigating the sand with a gratifyingly bandy gait.
(4) People have been offered Cuba, and no doubt governorships of Bermuda have been bandied about.
(5) In the wake of manager Mauricio Pochettino’s departure to Tottenham, England internationals Luke Shaw, Rickie Lambert and Adam Lallana were among those to leave for pastures new, leading to the term ‘meltdown’ being bandied around.
(6) "Bandying around accusations as a British foreign secretary about a mainstream party in Europe I think is quite wrong and David Miliband needs to recognise that, as I'm sure he now will."
(7) Wiley's own genre, "Eskibeat", and terms such as "Sublow" and "8 Bar", were still being bandied about, while the instrumentals were only available in a few specialist shops.
(8) While, today, none of us would take seriously politicians who bandy such weasel words about, these were quite the thing in the 60s.
(9) First, despite David Cameron's claim that the proposed increase is a " job killer ", the figures bandied around are absurd.
(10) A Nato diplomat said: “There is very real concern about the way in which Russia publicly bandies around nuclear stuff.
(11) This study demonstrates that FQ does not equal FP as several authors have reported (Bandi, 1972; Barry, 1979; Ficat and Hungerford, 1977; Hungerford and Barry, 1979; Reilly and Martens, 1972; Smidt, 1973).
(12) The notion that public figures have any right to privacy appears to have been lost in the furore surrounding the story, stolen correspondence being bandied around in attempts to influence the outcome of one of the nastiest, most vitriolic US presidential campaigns in history.
(13) Elections are about money; the number bandied nervously about in the room was that Hillary could raise a war chest of as much as $2.5bn before the Republicans have even picked a candidate.
(14) Having been bandied around various digital channels, the show has no home on our screens at present, but with the third season being released on DVD, there is now the chance to immerse yourself in a drama that is as idiosyncratic, and as compelling, as Tony Montana taking over a boarding school.
(15) Parton in the flesh is so exactly how one imagines her to be that as she sits opposite me, bandying about such Dolly-esque phrases as "You just need some good ol' horse sense!
(16) I think that maybe my name is bandied about because I'm known to be bald.
(17) The phrase "human shield" has been much bandied about, but it is not quite accurate.
(18) We’re not there yet, but if we want to maintain the ability to think clearly and independently about migration, there’s good reason to be wary of some of the vocabulary now being bandied about.
(19) The high content of cholesterol sulfate in adrenal cortex (Drayer, N.M., Roberts, K.D., Bandi, L., and Lieberman, S. (1964) J. Biol.
(20) In the total subject sample the individual values for VO2max had the highest correlation (p less than 0.01) with the individual playing ability in bandy.