bandy
verb (used with object)
to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange.
bandying
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present participleof bandy.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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It’s a spirit that is certainly related to, yet distinctly different from, the bawdy bandying that unfolds in Pasadena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
Well, on this occasion, I have no hesitation in bandying away.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2022
Journalists began bandying around the R-word this summer, after the Federal Reserve reported that industrial production had contracted for two straight quarters.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2019
Because it boomerangs back on the people who are bandying these terms about.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2015
Some of the worshippers who dropped in to read a page or two of an evening would gather in groups, bandying gossip or talking foreign politics, of which, indeed, they had the most grotesque conceptions.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan
