Sentence examples for bandy from inspiring English sources

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bandy

adjective

Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy legged.

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If only a tiny proportion of such twitterers wish to bandy names from the north Wales of long ago, there's nothing realistic that the police, the libel bar or service providers can do: they're blown away.

In each case "boldness" has been inhibited by loyalty to friends, qualms about ruining careers and concern about constitutional niceties (it has been one of those weeks when commentators sagely bandy about medieval dates and precedents hastily garnered from Wikipedia).The main explanation, however, is politicians' self-interest.

KPMG's Mr Sharman fumes that it is not clients who bandy charges about breaches of confidentiality but, by and large, non-clients.But this does not disarm all the Big Five's critics.

Does this exempt them from the right to bandy the word about?

For a party that in a sense has been very adept at the good times in developing a very aspirational script, particularly when money was not really an object and you could just bandy about promises, but not perhaps leavening that with also a sense that you need a certain credibility before you can get a hearing.

Its public-debt-to-GDP ratio has probably hit 100%.Politicians bandy about figures on how much they are helping Ukraine there was a $17 billion bail-out in April 2014, and a $40 billion bail-out in March 2015.

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In 1989 a giant flying saucer stalled in the sky over Johannesburg and has been hanging there ever since; its occupants, a motley herd of bandy-legged crustaceans, have been crammed into one of the townships once reserved for blacks.

Leibniz was a man of medium height with a stoop, broad-shouldered but bandy-legged, as capable of thinking for several days sitting in the same chair as of travelling the roads of Europe summer and winter.

It was the start of a sustained phase of imperious attacking that left Wigan bandy-legged.

He is naked, but not nobly naked, as he is for his baptism, flagellation, crucifixion, resurrection, and even when dead, but stripped, a man without his clothes, picking them up again; and not some heroic body, either, but a bandy-limbed figure.

The bandy-bandy has a small head and eyes and a slender, cylindrical body.

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