Sentence examples for bandy around from inspiring English sources
verb
To talk about something frequently, but without knowing the exact facts or truth of the matter.
- There are a lot of different figures being bandied around, but the exact cost will not be know for some time yet.
"Well, it's not a word I bandy around so much...". he says, and stares into the distance, looking neither quite happy nor quite unhappy.
Its success remains to be seen but, when the gallery opens later this month, there will at least be a few art-world brand names to bandy around: the first exhibition includes work by Damien Hirst, Gavin Turk and Chris Ofili.
When we bandy around terms like "low-density", what does this mean?
"People bandy around the 100,000 number, but I have no way of being sure of that," Sheedy said.
We now bandy around buzzwords like Paleo, clean and organic, while discussing the merits of cutting out grains, dairy or gluten.
Medical professionals, academics and university-educated commentators can bandy around minimum pricing, "Dry January's", restricted advertising et al all they wish.
Extremely serious allegations have been bandied around like confetti.
"It was something he bandied around," Felix Martin said.
Numbers have been bandied around by both sides.
Words like "scandal" are too easily bandied around, but they fit these stories.
The word seminal gets bandied around, but De La Soul were exactly that.
