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
Now Nada told Umslopogaas of those words which she had bandied with Zinita, and the Slaughterer was troubled.
From Nada the Lily by Haggard, Henry Rider
More was at his house at Chelsea when the summons called him to Lambeth, to the house where he had bandied fun with Warham and Erasmus or bent over the easel of Holbein.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter
But when much tossing had bandied both the King And you, as pleased those that took up the racquets.
From The Noble Spanish Soldier by Dekker, Thomas
