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