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• Soft tissue injuries are the bane of any physically active person.2022 August 10, Melanie Radzicki McManus, “How to avoid soft tissue injuries, according to experts”, in CNN. From the entry injury
• This figure is known as a problem's "branching factor," and it is a bane of AI.2017 December 31, Ilan Moscovitz, “Artificial Intelligence's "Holy Grail" Victory”, in Yahoo Finance, New York, N.Y.: Yahoo! Inc.…. From the entry quinquinquagintillion
• Which of these banes of modern business life is worse remains open to debate.2013 August 17, Schumpeter, “In praise of laziness”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849. From the entry which
• Whatever the name for her overcurvaceous backside, it was the bane of her existence.2013, Cathryn Parry, Out of His League, Richmond, Surrey: Mills & Boon, →ISBN, Chapter 9. From the entry booty
• There's nae banes broke, and I've dressed your face wi' a sure salve.[1927 July, John Buchan, “The First Blast”, in Witch Wood, London: Hodder and Stoughton, published August 1927, →OCLC, page 120. From the entry mend
• Dust is the bane of optical astronomy.2009 June 16, “Cosmic vision”, in Frontline. From the entry optical astronomy
• Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry banana
• And without so much as a departing retort, some face-saving insult, the duffel-coated rickle of banes slunk off.1992, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, Harcourt Brace, published 1994, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry rickle of banes
• Its commonest ingredients were once the bane of the sugar cane grower, and flourished in his fields especially after the May and June rains.1980, G. A. Seaman, Ay-Ay, an Island Almanac, page 50. From the entry weedwoman
• The Sirens, gleeful scourge of mariners, beguiling bane and cruelhearted joy, whom no man could abandon once he'd heard them, were left, they say, through sly Ulysses' ploy.2014, Martial, Selected Epigrams, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry cruelhearted
• Trench foot was a nasty and potentially fatal foot disease commonly caused by these conditions, in which chats or body lice were the bane of all.2013, Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry chat
• Rather like ruggy versions of paint-by-number sets, these temptingly convenient pre-stenciled patterns were at once a boon to the artistically challenged and a bane to original enterprise.2006, Country Living, volume 29. From the entry ruggy
• Members of the House of Keys, which makes the island's laws, are very much involved, and the official instruction says the officials should all wear bollan bane.2005, Benedict Le Vay, Bradt Eccentric Britain: The Bradt Guide To Britain's Follies, page 89. From the entry bollan bane

Meaning of bane

1. noun A cause of misery or ruin.
2. noun Chiefly in the names of poisonous plants or substances: a poison.
3. noun Misery, woe; also, doom, ruin; or physical injury, harm.

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How do you use bane in a sentence?

Bane is used as a noun and verb. For example: “At Barking, previously the bane of L.T.S. operating staff, the new works have now simplified the working of traffic from four converging routes in the area.”

What is a short sentence with bane?

“the bane of one’s existence”

What does bane mean?

Bane means a cause of misery or ruin.