Example Sentences

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"If you're too vocal about theories, they don't like that, they will banish you. It happened to me as a faithful and it happened to Hugo as a traitor."

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

Amid such stress, I doubt many people — certainly not me — will banish comfort food and vow to get in their “best shape ever.”

From Washington Post • May 1, 2020

The measure - “Oakland Slow Streets” - will banish traffic in many places starting Saturday.

From Washington Times • Apr. 10, 2020

Warner Bros. -- and all of Time Warner Inc. -- is hoping the caped crusaders will banish the studio's box office blues.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2016

The new order will banish all our ills.

From Victory out of Ruin by Maclean, Norman