bandy
verb (used with object)
to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange.
bandies
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pluralof bandy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof bandy (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
bandyverb (used with object)to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange.
Example Sentences
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The script bandies about all three options, concluding that he’s closest to a chosen curse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Aukerman, now with a much brasher energy, starts needling Mantzoukas, who bandies jokes back across the net.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
It seems just like the kind of slightly surreal utterance Singh often bandies around in interviews, but Cornershop's rather wonderful new album literalises this simile.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2011
Couching his pacifist message in Gallic irony, Giraudoux bandies about the question of whether the Trojans should pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to hold onto Helen, the world's most beautiful woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had great imagination, adds Madame Surville; and, says the novelist, "this imagination, which she has bequeathed me, bandies her ever from north to south and from south to north."
From Balzac by Frederick Lawton
