'banded' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has multiple bands or stripes on its surface, or to refer to a group of people or animals that has been organized by being divided into smaller groups or sections. Example sentence: The colorful balloons were banded with red, green, and yellow stripes.
The broadcasters have banded together to establish a new service to make their catch-up TV services – BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and 4oD – available as standard on smart TVs.
In 1970, as the Northern Ireland Troubles escalated, Gerry Fitt, John Hume and others associated with the civil rights campaign banded together to form a new grouping that they called the SDLP, to pursue their demands, democratically and peacefully, in both the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont and at Westminster.
Most British species prefer ponds or slow-moving water, but not the golden-ringed dragonfly, a true northerner and happiest on an acid moorland stream – like this female with her elongated body banded in black and yellow.
As Patton Oswalt's viral essay argued, the lesson we must – if we are to retain our dignity and humanity – take away from that tragedy is that people banded together can do great things in the face of evil.
An important example is pay: colleagues who are equally well-qualified and doing the same work in hospitals where the service is funded by the local mental health trust are banded lower and paid less.
An explainer on Obama's 'secret' trade pact The majority of Senate Democrats oppose the TPP bill, citing concerns over the loss of US manufacturing jobs and poor working conditions in developing countries, and banded together to filibuster the fast-track legislation.
Later that year, dozens of America's largest international development contractors banded together to form the Council of International Development Companies (CIDC) to serve as a unified, public voice for private development contractors on Capitol Hill.
Several groups, including Jabhat al-Nusra, banded together as Jaish al-Fatah (Army of Conquest) to take and try to administer rather than run into ruin Idleb.
Colony Capital, an American investment fund which specialises in property, and Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, a French luxury goods firm, banded together last year to invest in Carrefour, the world's second-largest retailer.
A coalition of eastern European countries, led by Poland and supported by Italy, has banded together to fight the so-called 20/20/20 plan.
Other countries have banded together to find strength in numbers.
