banishment

Example Sentences

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Let’s say you were ordered deported and you now faced banishment from your country.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2026

Part hobo, part insult comic, part performance artist, Diogenes flaunted his disregard for convention in ways that scandalized the bourgeoisie of Athens and, later, Corinth, after his banishment from Sinope became permanent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

“As Alan Carr says, the faithful have got to up the nerve at the banishment table and behave less like pussycats and more like rottweilers,” said TV reporter Siobhan Synnot.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

It may not have been felonious enough to demand civil punishment, but it certainly required banishment from the game and from any of its rewards.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2025

I had said I would not bring the ship down till his banishment was ended, his name cleared.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin