banish

Example Sentences

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He also claims that the prince fears that his brother, the future king, "could remove all the Sussexes' titles and effectively banish him from Britain".

From BBC

History reminds us big stand offs between London and Washington, such as the UK resisting American pressure to send troops to Vietnam, don't have to banish relations to a perpetual deep freeze.

From BBC

Even Ron Funches joked on Instagram that he wanted some salmon “to go” after he was banished.

From Salon

He observes that labeling certain feelings as negative justifies attempts to banish them, but he counsels doing the opposite.

From The Wall Street Journal

Leah banished her only child, shipping Lizzie eight hundred miles away to live in Illinois with the father she barely knew.

From Literature