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• A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead.From the entry dead
• We must pray to Jesus to banish this Satanicness from the world.From the entry satanicness
• Other countries also plan to banish their nuclear waste into GDFs.December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian. From the entry GDF
• They are killed, tortured, made to take part in the fighting, banished from their homes.2000, Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović, Women, Violence and War, →ISBN. From the entry take part
• To banish the thoughts, she made herself think of the boy's mother.1984, Sharon Webb, Ram Song, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry midwoman
• PEOPLE can banish the winter blues and get fitter by joining in cycleathon sessions at Sandwell Central Library this month.2018 January 11, “Riding high for fitness at town library”, in Sandwell Chronicle, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, page 4, column 3. From the entry cycleathon
• Clinton held her nonconcession speech in a Manhattan bunker, banishing cellphone reception and television monitors carrying the news of Mr.2008 June 8, Frank Rich, “One Historic Night, Two Americas”, in New York Times. From the entry wittily
• Hated and feared, magic was banished from the land.2003, advertisement for The Hob's Bargain, in Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood, page 286 (approx.). From the entry bloodmage
• Cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghost and goblins.1964, “The Rocky Road to Dublin” (track 8), in The Dubliners, performed by traditional. From the entry blackthorn
• He banished all irrelevancies from his canalised mind.1946, Mervyn Peake, “Blood at Midnight”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. From the entry aswarm
• The little island of Iona became the refuge of the sons and some thanes of Athelfrith, banished by Edwin.1910, Robert A. Thompson, The People's History of England, New York: Walter Scott Publishing. From the entry thane
• He is as Lucifer would be were that proud spirit banished to a society of soulless, Tomlinsonian ghosts.1904, Jack London, chapter 10, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC. From the entry Tomlinsonian
• I’m glad that I’ve banished her.2025 September 17, Toni Storm, quotee, “Toni Storm: I’m Glad I Banished Mariah May, I’m A Big Fan Of Blake Monroe”, in Fightful, archived…. From the entry compromise to a permanent end
• To be frank, having been banished to the super troupers for four hot hours, he wasn't about to break any more sweat worrying about it.2016, James C. Lee, The End of the Pier. From the entry super trouper
• Of course, people are only temporarily absent—decentred from the narrative focus by war, rumbling just over the horizon—and by no means irredeemably banished.2012, Greg Garrard, “Worlds Without Us: Some Types of Disanthropy”, in Ranjan Ghosh, editor, SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary…. From the entry disanthropic
• When David Cameron moved into Downing Street he probably thought that he would only ever banish his children to the naughty step.2010 July 13, Nicholas Watt, “Liam Fox is placed on the Downing Street naughty step after testing David Cameron’s patience”, in Alan…. From the entry naughty step
• However, he killed someone and, because he came up against a powerful adversary, was banished to Jiyang District⁶ in the far south.2000, Shuhui Yang, Yunqin Yang, transl., compiled by Feng Menglong, Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Seattle; London…. From the entry Jiyang
• But in the Muslim world we are dealing with regimes who have banished, imprisoned, silenced or neutralised all opposition, even where this is entirely peaceable.1999 December 29, Faisal Bodi, The Guardian. From the entry peaceable
• Dionysus, once the great goat-god, turned into horned and hooved Satan, the scapegoat, who was banished (as the escape-goat) and later sacrificially burned (holocausted).1995, Janice Hocker Rushing, “Evolution of ‘The New Frontier’ in Alien and Aliens: Patriarchal Co-optation of the Feminine Archetype”, in…. From the entry holocaust
• There is no sporting purpose on earth that should stop the United States Congress from banishing assault weapons that outgun police and cut down children.1994, Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address. From the entry outgun
• DSP can also eliminate ghost images from TV screens and banish those irritating Donald Duck squeaks and quacks from speeded-up playback of tape-recorded voice messages.1992 April, Gene Bylinsky, “A U.S. Comeback in Electronics”, in Fortune, volume 125, number 8, page 77. From the entry Donald Duck
• We are going to banish it!"1987, Robert Shapiro, The Explorer Race, →ISBN, page 323. From the entry nicey-nicey
• Officials (and their wives) schemed to get to major capitals; and felt banished if they were in a secondary or tertiary post.1959, The American Behavioral Scientist 1959-07: Volume 3, Issue 1, Sage Publications Incorporated, page 56. From the entry hyperfocus
• Ruth said: 'I recently treated myself to a fitted, hot pink dress for a night out and banished that image of being a fat, pink flump for good.'2015 June 9, Martha Cliff, “'I looked like a blobby blancmange': Obese mother-of-five beat her sugar cravings to lose SIX STONE... after…. From the entry flump
• Just as the erotic imagination projects its antitype through an act of repression, Shelley's rhetoric begins in a negative gesture, banishing the truth of the origin's textualization.2014, William A. Ulmer, Shelleyan Eros: The Rhetoric of Romantic Love, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry antitype
• I like to carry the incense widdershins around the room (widdershins being the direction of banishing) and then also run the incense widdershins around windows, doors, and mirrors.2002, Laura Perry, The Wiccan Wellness Book: Natural Healthcare for Mind, Body, and Spirit, Career Press, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry widdershins
• Is it possible to banish the highheartedness of magnanimity from political life without at the same time banishing the highheartedness that is the condition for philosophy?1999, Kenneth L. Deutsch, John A. Murley, Leo Strauss, The Straussians, and the Study of the American Regime., →ISBN, page 225. From the entry highheartedness
• In the fifties, O'Connor tells a friend, when Sister Mariella's bishop ordered her to stop teaching Catcher in the Rye, she defied him and was banished.1981 February 14, Peg Cruikshank, “The Warmth Shines Through”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 15. From the entry Benedictine
• As elsewhere in China, Xinjiang has been stepping up efforts to banish ethnic-minority languages from schools—a policy that has recently triggered protests by parents in Inner Mongolia, a northern region.2020 October 17, “Orphaned by the state”, in The Economist, volume 437, number 9216, page 37. From the entry Inner Mongolia
• The time has arrived when monkeying with the public must cease, when lying and underhanding your competitor in the baking business must be banished from the plan of business development.1922, Baking Technology - Volumes 1-2, page 193. From the entry underhand

Meaning of banish

1. verb To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
2. verb To expel, especially from the mind.

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Questions about banish in a sentence

How do you use banish in a sentence?

Banish is used as a verb. For example: “He was banished from the kingdom for his crimes.”

What is a short sentence with banish?

“I’m glad that I’ve banished her.”

What does banish mean?

Banish means to send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.