How to Use banish in a Sentence

banish

verb
  • He was banished for life.
  • The dictator banished anyone who opposed him.
  • Mike Dean didn't like it, and banished Wenger to the stands.
    SI.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • There is, after all, a reason they were banished to the third row in the first place.
    Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Who was banished at the last roundtable in The Traitors Season 3?
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2025
  • A year ago, Gruden banished Khalil Mack, one of the best pass-rushers in the league.
    Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 7 Sep. 2019
  • The anger remains his own, the restless ghosts his alone to banish.
    Rachel Syme, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • These won’t prevent the next megabreach or banish ransomware from the earth.
    WIRED, 11 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • He was banished to the stands in the second half, the first time he has been sent from the touchline in his City career.
    Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Craft beer has achieved a state of perfection, with all sub-standard brews banished.
    Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
  • Through his tight leadership that began with the fifth season, delays became a thing of the past, unceremoniously banished to the farthest reaches of the Central Finite Curve.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025

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