bandy
verb (used with object)
to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange.
had bandied
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past perfectof bandy.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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And last week for the second year, intellectuals who had bandied ideas in Burgundy found themselves just as happy in Massachusetts, although they missed such old Ponti-nians as rapier-sharp Gide.
From Time Magazine Archive
My own mind was spinning from the ideas we had bandied back and forth so rapidly.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
For weeks the stories which the gossips had bandied had wounded him, but now he felt different.
From The Day of Judgment by Joseph Hocking
He had bandied words with a man who was openly his enemy, and he felt ashamed of himself.
From The Day of Judgment by Joseph Hocking
Just an instant before and he had bandied some light jest with me, and I had thought how handsome he was with that bright, winning smile, which death froze so soon upon his lips.
From Bessie's Fortune A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes
