banished

Example Sentences

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I’m shocked that Season 2’s Kate Chastain is the only person who’s begged to be banished.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

South Korea's disgraced former president Yoon Suk Yeol could be banished to death row on February 19 when he fronts court over his disastrous bid to impose martial law.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

It’s his inability to flatter with formulaic language that ultimately causes him to be banished from Rome.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

But as people who shared the experience of being “mocked and feared, blamed and banished, envied and imitated,” often allied, sometimes antagonists, theirs is a special case.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

The shouts of the children, the shrieks and hoots of the daemons, filled the little gymnasium and soon banished fearful thoughts; which of course was exactly what the exercise was intended to do.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman