How to Use banish in a Sentence

banish

verb

• He was banished for life.
• The dictator banished anyone who opposed him.
• The Drag Queen was the first traitor to be caught and banished by the faithfuls.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
• When the crowd called for the students to be banished, the city complied.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• The Wildcats have been banished from the end zone for much of the season.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2019
• The way the game works, each day, the players all vote to banish someone from the game.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2024
• At the end of the film, Lorraine learns the demon's name and manages to banish it to hell.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
• May all the evils in your life be banished by goodness.
  — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 29 Aug. 2023
• A year ago, Gruden banished Khalil Mack, one of the best pass-rushers in the league.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• For most soldiers, the base is a place to be banished to or escaped from.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
• Plastic straws are out, too — banished from restaurants by the end of the year.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2020
• Their goal is to banish a Traitor so that only Faithfuls are left in the game at the end.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2024
• She’d been baptized a Catholic, and her church taught that she would be banished to hell.
  — Susan McKay, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019
• The same cocktail of ice, salt and soap can banish the stains in a coffee pot, too.
  — Jenny Xie, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
• One is taught, too, how to discover a witch and how to banish her.
  — Robert Shackleton, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Plus, a jolt of caffeine in these works to banish puffiness.
  — Sam Peters, ELLE, 14 Nov. 2022
• The industry’s biggest trade shows banished the AR-15 to the back.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
• Easter is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 14 Feb. 2019
• Just be sure to grab your fave brush and hairspray to banish flyaways.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 18 Jan. 2023
• This Holi, banish the Ravanas from your mind and fill it with the lovely thoughts of Lord Ram.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 17 Jan. 2023
• Saya is a high school girl who was banished from one of the top Yakuza clans to a school for assassins.
  — Mekita Rivas, Teen Vogue, 8 Oct. 2018
• May Diwali bring enough light to banish all the darkness from your life.
  — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 18 Aug. 2022
• His roommates missed him while he was banished to the lobby.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• If border guards fail to stop them, the guards are banished to the ocean as punishment.
  — Russell Contreras, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
• Rivers was banished from the Carson show and fired from her own the following year.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• Today, in the U.S. and the U.K., death is largely banished from the visual landscape.
  — Cody Delistraty, The New Yorker, 22 June 2024
• Starting at the top of episode 10, Peter gets banished.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
• In the afternoon, Prado was told that López had been banished from the house.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• There are exposition-laden flashbacks to Roya’s childhood, in which she’s banished from the classroom while the boys are taught how to use computers.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2025
• Dylan and Gabby voted to banish Danielle, but Dolores voted for Ivar.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025