Example Sentences

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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

Comedy, as practiced by Molière, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, provides a forum for the bandying of difficult and dangerous ideas.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2017

Because it boomerangs back on the people who are bandying these terms about.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2015

The very needless reiteration of these words, their bandying from verse to verse, deprives them of impressiveness.

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer