How To Use Bandy In A Sentence

  • With his cane, his downcast eyes, and bandy legged gait, he is the antithesis of Hollywood muscle-bound steroid cases.
  • We counted several occurrences of this phrase during a recent scene, with folks of every age and creed hilariously bandying about variations on the awkward verbiage. Is It Just Me: The Good Wife's Phony Lingo
  • And his legs are what his regiment call bandy, oh! The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
  • The beating happened in the summer of 1933, a year after Fisher, as Dahl records in his own letters home, had left Repton to become Bishop of Chester.96 More than fifty years later, however, Dahl blamed the “shoddy bandy-legged” Fisher for the caning, and painted him as a sanctimonious hypocrite. Storyteller
  • His bandy legs are pulled up under the distended moon of his swollen stomach.
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  • The prosecution and defense were bandying accusations back and forth.
  • Short, bandy-legged and remarkably intense, Daniel plays Hatuey, the leader of the resistance against Columbus and the first Indian to be burned on a cross, as well as the firebrand leader of the Bolivian resistance against the water privateers. 'Unknown': Unmoored, Overcooked
  • In his grandpa jeans, Nick Clegg looks like a bandy-legged postman who has just got the sack.
  • They are bandying her name about a good deal.
  • Mandralisca surveyed his bandy-legged little aide-de-camp with a long, slow, curious look. KING OF DREAMS
  • In other words, he was a wee slip of a thing, a flyweight who sometimes had the additional curse of bandy legs caused by childhood rickets, a dreadful disease usually caused by a lack of vitamin D.
  • How does it go?" asked Max, who was in a sixteen-foot canvas canoe like the one Steve handled so dexterously; while Bandy-legs, fearing to trust to anything so frail, had insisted on getting one of the older type lapstreak cedar boats, that were so marvelously beautiful in his eyes. The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island
  • In recent days, each side has been describing the other in increasingly vitriolic terms, bandying around words such as "disingenuous" and "lying" in private. Phone hacking: two News of the World journalists arrested
  • Short-nosed breeds - known as "brachycephalic" in the dog world - have a skull formation that affects their airways, said Dan Bandy of Shawnee, Okla., chairman of the Bulldog Club of WTVM - 1- WTVM Home
  • Gervais,50, has been bandying about the term "mong," which has been used in the past as a derogatory term for people with Down's syndrome. NY Daily News
  • The coyote shambles, crow-hops, keeps his head low, and without fur, his now visible pizzle is a sad red protuberance, his hind legs the backward image of a bandy-legged grandfather, stripped. The Best American Poetry 2010
  • Palmer's dignity did not allow her to bandy words with her social inferiors.
  • With his cane, his downcast eyes, and bandy legged gait, he is the antithesis of Hollywood muscle-bound steroid cases.
  • A few mums and grannies in leather skirts go up to the stage to try dancing around the pole - bending bandy legs, flicking ankles and pouting.
  • With his peroxide head bowed, eyes closed, the old man feels his way forward, bandy legs shuffling, shoulders stooped, senses bat sharp, as keen as razor wire.
  • She thinks her own legs are small, bandy, nearly misshapen.
  • He yanked his robe up to his waist and raced on naked bandy legs to the stone rostrum at the east of the forum.
  • Voice over Here it's a virtue to have no belief in what you say, bandying words is an admired skill.
  • With his peroxide head bowed, eyes closed, the old man feels his way forward, bandy legs shuffling, shoulders stooped, senses bat sharp, as keen as razor wire.
  • He's a skinny little hillbilly Jesus with bandy legs and close-set eyes and a clever, foxy face.
  • In the history of Angola we find that the famous queen Donna Anna de Souza came from the vicinity, as embassadress from her brother, Gola Bandy, King of the Jinga, to Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
  • White Mason was a quiet, comfortable - looking person in a loose tweed suit, with a clean-shaved, ruddy face, a stoutish body, and powerful bandy legs adorned with gaiters, looking like a small farmer, a retired gamekeeper, or anything upon earth except a very favourable specimen of the provincial criminal officer. Chennai
  • Brand shook his head. He was tired of bandying words with the man.
  • It ' s not a good sign, or portent, or whatever, that the only affecting character in " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 " proves to be the emancipated elf Dobby, a bandy-legged, floppy-eared, scrawny-necked and mostly digital creature — based on Toby Jones ' s performance — who yanks really hard at your heartstrings in his hour of distress. '
  • She thinks her own legs are small, bandy, nearly misshapen.
  • The name "bandy" is sometimes applied also to shinney or shinty and in Outdoor Sports and Games
  • It might be their posture, a cocksure expression, bandy legs and butter-hued dentition, or nothing at all.
  • He saw that the man had drunk too much, and the idea of bandying words in the attempt to rebuke him was distasteful. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2)
  • They kill and eat such a lot of snakes -- bad snakes, 'bandy-bandies' and 'black necks.' Tom Gerrard
  • The progress comes as Google has been bandying the channel idea around Hollywood for months, as it tries to reposition the web video juggernaut as more formidable competitor to TV. YouTube Prepares to Launch Scheduled Channels
  • Of course, simply bandying names about isn't the point. Robert Greenwald: WATCH: Who's Wrecking America? Vote on the 1% Nominees
  • Here they have "bandy" matches, ski-ing, and tobogganing, as well as other winter games. Denmark
  • The shark is circling Farnsworth, you of the bandy legs and discombobulated dance maneuverings.
  • This bandy-legged, sawed-off little rat racer is awfully interesting in its own right. Fanboys in Flight: Subaru Roars In on a Wing
  • People have been bandying about the word closure in response to the death of bin Laden. Marcia G. Yerman: Thoughts on the Death of Osama Bin Laden
  • Takeshi is small, thick set, with bandy legs and a disconcerting twitch to his cheek.
  • A cough, a curse, and a bandy-legged figure with a ghoulish pallor and medieval dentistry emerges from the gloom. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a kind of exercise that they have among them much like that which boys call bandy in English. 135 Likewise, they have the exercise of football. 136 In this they only use the foot forcibly to carry the ball from the one to the other. Colonial Children
  • But that wud juist be a dwang to the lassies, syne," answered Bandy. My Man Sandy
  • The coyote shambles, crow-hops, keeps his head low, and without fur, his now visible pizzle is a sad red protuberance, his hind legs the backward image of a bandy-legged grandfather, stripped. The Best American Poetry 2010
  • Golf and hockey are also played, and "bandy" -- _i. e._, hockey on the ice -- is a favourite winter sport. Denmark
  • She has been running from the Ohio bigwigs implicated in the scandal as fast as her bandy little legs will carry her.
  • The Instructor was tanned, bored, had bandy legs, roamed around saying nothing and then wrote his name in big letters on the board.
  • Pottie Lawson, Bandy Wobster, an 'Sandy have juist been thick an' three faud sin the Hielant games toornament, an 'I kent fine there was some pliskie brooin' amon 'them. My Man Sandy
  • The name "bandy" is sometimes applied also to shinney or shinty and in Outdoor Sports and Games
  • The prosecution and defense were bandying accusations back and forth.
  • But come showtime it'll be buzzing and Sylla, as he ambles towards me on the pitchside track, cuts an impressive (if slightly bandy - legged) figure.
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  • Wynd -- or, as the Highlanders called him, _Gow Chrom_, that is, the bandy-legged smith -- fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; -- so, 'To fight for your ain hand, like Henry Wynd,' passed into a proverb. The Proverbs of Scotland
  • His legs, bandy and stubby, propel him sheathed in black overalls.
  • Highlanders called him, _Gow Chrom, _ that is, the bandy-legged smith -- fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; -- so, "To fight for your own hand, like Henry Wynd," passed into a proverb. Rob Roy — Complete
  • 'A dook, in course, 'said Grattles loftily;' but we don't, in consequence of 'er Nibs bein' mixed up with the old man's mother, reweal the family skeletons to low piemen, 'then, with a fresh grimace, he darted along the street as quickly as his bandy legs could carry him. Madame Midas
  • Voice over Here it's a virtue to have no belief in what you say, bandying words is an admired skill.
  • The name "bandy" is sometimes applied also to shinney or shinty and in Outdoor Sports and Games
  • The green question is especially vexing as both sides bandy scientific studies involving so many variables that the Natural Resources Defense Council considers the issue a wash when it comes to disposables in a landfill versus reusables in the laundry. Cloth or disposables? Half-century debate still on
  • When people were bandying about various names for the Terps head football coach job opening, there was a lot of chatter about who would help put bodies in seats. Buy Terps season tickets and $ave
  • Don't bandy words with me, young man!
  • Back then, the pale, scrawny 14-year-old with bandy legs and crooked teeth was as far removed from the healthy, sporty look epitomised by Cindy Crawford and Elle MacPherson as you could get.
  • The things didn't look dangerous with their soft, bandy legs and large fingers.
  • I had really high hopes, but he looked like a bandy-legged giraffe. The Sun
  • Chrom, that is, the bandy-legged smith — fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; — so, “To fight for your own hand, like Henry Rob Roy
  • Bandy Wobster to kollig wi 'him to gie Lawson a richt fleg. My Man Sandy
  • His hips and his bandy legs, which seem unusually long from knee to ankle, move with a stiffness which suggests that his joints are about to seize up.
  • People bandy around the word tactics when in fact they are referring to all sorts of other aspects of the game.
  • And, to me, she looks, in her jeans, really quite bandy-legged, as if from malnutrition. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's not like they don't know what's coming …29 mins "If we're bandying around present horror stories, we asked my father in law for a toaster and a cookbook," writes Hugh Collins. Stoke v Aston Villa - as it happened | Paolo Bandini
  • She frightened the hell out of the entire male staff with her rampaging sexual prowess and bandy legs.
  • There wasna a twa-shilliny bit to be gotten, so Bandy had to tak 'the lid o' a sweetie-bottle an 'mak' the best o't. My Man Sandy
  • A bandy-legged, bull-chested man with gray eyes and black hair that hung loose to his shoulders, draped in a heavy bear-pelt cloak and wearing a golden torque as thick as her wrist around his heavily muscled neck. Dark Moon of Avalon
  • Highlanders called him, Gow Chrom, that is, the bandy-legged smith --- fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; --- so, ` ` To fight for your own hand, like Rob Roy
  • The prosecution and defense were bandying accusations back and forth.
  • There is no reason to believe that the caps TWC is bandying about will cause a single person to redesign a single web site. Time Warner Cable Says It Singled Out Austin’s Geeks
  • I'm all stiff and bandy legged, like a pensioner.
  • This bandy-legged, sawed-off little rat racer is awfully interesting in its own right. Fanboys in Flight: Subaru Roars In on a Wing
  • And then again, we all -- even those of us who still use and like the term "spirituality" -- are embarrassed by and have disdain for those who bandy about terms such as "spirituality" as a conveniently fashionable and corrupt excuse for sensory overload or anything else they can't articulate: as in a coked-up celebrity who blathered on about her amazing spiritual experience while meditating to the full moon. Loren-Paul Caplin: Religious vs. Spiritual: Semantics Or Neurotics?
  • A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up. Ulysses
  • A Mini is a car that is bandy, diminutive and urbane, which is to say, good on gas and easy to park. What Part of 'Mini' Did You Not Grasp, BMW?
  • “It really is smashing, Dryden,” said Teddy, bandying about his new mot du jour. Exit the Actress
  • They are bandying her name about a good deal.
  • Little Evie, two generations distant, is doing fine, pushing herself up on back legs still bandy, only to have them shoot out behind her.
  • Don Pedro Gil: his progeny grew up a thriving and merry-hearted, though short and bandy-legged generation, while Senora Gil, befringed, belaced, and betasselled from her head to her heels, with glittering rings on every finger, became a model of slattern fashion and finery. The Alhambra
  • They are bandying her name about a good deal.
  • They are bandying her name about a good deal.
  • With his cane, his downcast eyes, and bandy legged gait, he is the antithesis of Hollywood muscle-bound steroid cases.

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