How to Use banish in a Sentence

banish

verb
  • He was banished for life.
  • The dictator banished anyone who opposed him.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But trust the process—it’ll banish ashiness on your knees, elbows, and feet.
    Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Thor and his friends lash out at the Frost Giants against Odin’s wishes, and he is banished to Earth.
    Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
  • For this new Panamera, steel springs have been banished.
    Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The horse's trainer, Bob Baffert, was also banished from the sport for two years.
    Justin Klawans, The Week, 6 May 2023
  • Their hits got banished from the radio, never to return until now.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2024
  • In the end, the individual whom Standard Oil had banished to the invisible position of Vice President became quite the thorn for the oil company.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024

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