Example Sentences

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Faculty pay is surprisingly poor at Western Reserve, but a new scholarly spirit is banishing an old Babbittry and attracting able researchers who like the labs as well as the living.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

From Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry by Various

That State is banishing bar-rooms from its highways, and conducting the mountain-springs thither.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various

A ludicrous pretence of education is banishing every form of native simplicity.

From Born in Exile by Gissing, George

I sometimes think that the rise of the culinary arts is banishing this fine old appreciation of fruits in their natural forms.

From The Holy Earth by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)