banish

Example Sentences

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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

Moments later Cronin was grabbing the kid’s shirt and leading him to the baseline, where he ordered an assistant coach to remove him from the court area and banish him to the locker room.

From Los Angeles Times

South Korea has an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment -- the last prisoners were executed in 1997 -- with a death sentence effectively banishing Yoon to life behind bars.

From Barron's