bans

[ banz ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

1. banns.

bans

/ bænz /

plural noun

1. See banns
   a variant spelling of banns

Example Sentences

New York blinks in the face of uncertainty and bans hydraulic fracturing.

From The Daily Beast

In Kansas, as in many states, challenges to same-sex marriage bans are wending their way through the courts.

From The Daily Beast

Were state same-sex marriage bans really going to go undefeated?

From The Daily Beast

UNO currently bans students from smoking in their own cars on campus, despite the fact that it has no legal grounds to do so.

From The Daily Beast

Today, there are no travel bans levied against the 8:15am Acela bound for Philly.

From The Daily Beast

In this village you will mumble over the bans without one of your congregation ever taking heed of the name.

From Project Gutenberg

It is the blood-tie that bans marriage within the totem group, not the common totem.

From Project Gutenberg

A hundred thousand bans and maledictions fall upon Mercury and Haas, the architect, who sent for me to look at it!

From Project Gutenberg

There, too, were the bans of her brother Maurice published, and there he was married.

From Project Gutenberg

Keijo we found a vast city where all the population, with the exception of the nobles or yang-bans, dressed in the eternal white.

From Project Gutenberg