(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.
Brandy
Definition:
(n.) A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this regime is by no means a temporary regime,” Brandis said.
(2) O’Sullivan said a number of “third parties” whom Brandis met would need to be consulted before they could consider release.
(3) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(4) Brandis rejected suggestions the Coalition had made a deal with the Greens to pass Senate reforms as long as the ABCC was not raised.
(5) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
(6) Brandis said nothing in the bill would stop Asio whistleblowers from reporting suspected wrongdoing to the inspector general of intelligence and security.
(7) Brandis is yet to make a final determination about whether the government will implement such a regime or not – I suspect it is very likely to happen – but he's quite clearly reserving himself time and space to think it through.
(8) Brandis has asked the ACT government not to put the new laws into effect until the court can determine their validity, but the chief minister, Katy Gallagher, has vowed to press ahead.
(9) Everyone knows that Father Christmas’s tipple of choice is brandy, so Santa, if you’re reading this, we recommend you pause in The Flask on Highgate West Hill for a quick snifter.
(10) In 2013, the Mail On Sunday reported that Umunna belonged to a “shady” City men’s club where bottles of brandy went for £4,000 a pop, that he hung out with celebrities, and that he would happily pay £1,200 for a suit.
(11) I want to emphasise the point: it’s a common responsibility on all citizens if they become aware of information of concern, they should make authorities aware.” Brandis said he had spoken early on Friday to the AFP commissioner, Andrew Colvin, who told him the New South Wales police had “no reason to believe” the Merrylands police station incident was an act of terrorism .
(12) Brandis said former human rights commissioner Tim Wilson, who retired in February and was preselected as Liberal candidate for Goldstein , had a “particularly distinguished term”.
(13) Asked about his forthcoming Christmas television special in an interview in the Radio Times, the BBC presenter, who turns 90 next year, said: “At Christmas we’re under the impression we have it all: we have turkey and brandy butter and Christmas pudding and the family and we have a great time, by and large.
(14) The latter of these focus on the things Chile does best: wine and pisco, the local brandy with a grassy colour and spicy-sweet taste.
(15) Marriage equality could be a reality by end of the year, says George Brandis Read more The attorney general, George Brandis , told Sky News on Sunday the government’s mooted plebiscite on the issue would be held shortly after the 2016 election and before the end of the year.
(16) Brandis conceded to Liberal Democratic senator David Leyonhjelm, explicitly prohibiting Asio from engaging in torture, but would not even answer a reasonable question from Greens Senator Scott Ludlam during what passed for the debate over the bill.
(17) Carboxylic acids were present in much higher levels in plum brandy, vinegar, lamb and mutton (heated), whereas alcohols, esters and carbonyls aldehydes are particularly abundant in brandy.
(18) Brandis said the measures were developed in conjunction with the New South Wales government.
(19) In an interview with Sky News on Tuesday, Brandis emphasised that the government had not made any decisions about second-generation Australians and had instead opted to “lead a national conversation about the rights and obligations associated with citizenship”.
(20) The treasurer, Joe Hockey, the attorney general, George Brandis, the trade minister, Andrew Robb, the finance minister, Mathias Cormann, and Turnbull are understood to oppose Billson’s proposed changes.