(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.
Sandy
Definition:
(superl.) Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.
(superl.) Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) The influence of salt mixtures consisting of Ca(H2PO4)2, trace elements, CaSO4, CaCO3, Na2CO3, NaCl and K2SO4 in different combinations on the nitrifying power, evolution of carbon dioxide and the total number of bacteria was studied in arid soils (sandy and alluvial) and semi-humid ones (chernozem and rendzina).
(2) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."
(3) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
(4) I would like to place on record our sincere thanks to Owen, Sandy Stewart [Coyle's assistant] and Steve Davis [coach] for all their hard work during their time at Bolton Wanderers."
(5) New employment data today suggested that hurricane Sandy is hurting already tenuous US job growth.
(6) A man who had been near them reached the hotel terrace first, scrambling up a steep sandy bank.
(7) The long, curving, sandy Plage des Chevrets is one of the prettiest on Brittany's Emerald Coast.
(8) It's wise, however, not to concentrate on the exact path of Sandy.
(9) This is why we have seen these horrible events [like typhoon Haiyan and hurricane Sandy] in the past few years, with many people affected.
(10) But the president’s big push for stricter gun control laws after the Sandy Hook shooting failed to get those 60 Senate votes necessary, after strong opposition from the NRA and other gun rights groups.
(11) Adult, male rats were gavaged with an aqueous suspension of 14C-toluene in the presence or absence of either an Atsion (sandy soil) or a Keyport soil (clay soil).
(12) Shortly after the Sandy Hook massacre he assigned vice president Joe Biden to lead a task force looking at new legislation.
(13) The field was taped off while a mechanical digger clawed at the ground, making parallel trenches in the sandy earth.
(14) Abnormal events such as Hurricane Sandy , which cost $65bn (£40bn) and the 2011-12 US drought, which cost $35bn (£21bn) may be just foretasters of the price to be paid.
(15) I don’t know if it’s true.” She began to lose hope as she criss-crossed the sandy forest paths.
(16) In the three months since the 14 December shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, the NRA has been lobbying vociferously against President Obama's attempt to tighten gun controls.
(17) But the lawyers for the Sandy Hook families are not arguing that the single transaction was handled negligently.
(18) Congress almost acted in April 2013 in the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre in which Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults, a moment when voters wanted gun control more than at any point since the Columbine shooting of 1999.
(19) Climate change is making these sorts of storms more common, much as it is making Sandy-like superstorms and unusually intense hurricanes more common.” Those storms were not created by climate change, Mann said.
(20) From here the view is breathtaking; looking down on Loch Coruisk and tiny sandy beaches below all ringed by the looming jagged peaks of the Cuillin.