banish
verb (used with object)
to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile.
was banishing
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past progressiveof banish.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I realize only now that in breaking up my CDs, I was banishing whole phases of my personal history—Britpop, jazz, garage rock, Patti Smith—to oblivion.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2018
When I told my wife and son that I was banishing Cesar from our lives, they celebrated his eviction by giving me an extravagant gift.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2014
And because all this was of Ann, it was banishing the things it could not assimilate.
From The Visioning by Glaspell, Susan
How the promenade round these gardens that were haunted with his and her delights was banishing them one by one!
From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton
The Czar was banishing him, and for an indefinite period.
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente
