Sentences with banish
ban·ish
B b - John was banished from England. [be V-ed from/to n]
- ...a public investment programme intended to banish the recession. [VERB noun]
- President Obama l had urged world leaders to banish their pessimism about thrashing out a climate change deal.
- Taubmans has created a website that encourages customers to try more adventurous colours and banish the beige.
- He has now banished all thoughts of retirement. [VERB noun]
- To banish gloom
- Captain Sean Long believes the winning mentality of Aussie recruits Craig Fitzgibbon and Mark O'Meley will help Hull banish the memories of 2009.
- One taste, though, is enough to banish such thoughts.
- To banish cares, to banish wrinkles
- If you don't stop talking blasphemes, I will banish you. He was banished from the kingdom. Now for Christ's love, said Sir Launcelot, keep it in counsel, and let no man know it in the world, for I am sore ashamed that I have been thus miscarried; for I am banished out of the country of Logris for ever, that is for to say the country of England. he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world [ …] .
- Tom's book argues that Henry James' psychological realism did not banish the conventions of gothic fiction.
- Banish implies removal from a country (not necessarily one's own) as a formal punishment; , exile implies compulsion to leave one's own country, either because of a formal decree or through force of circumstance; , expatriate suggests more strongly voluntary exile and often implies the acquiring of citizenship in another country; to , deport is to send (an alien) out of the country, because the alien either entered unlawfully or is regarded as undesirable; to , transport is to banish (a convict) to a penal colony; , ostracize today implies forced exclusion from society, or a certain group, as because of disgrace [ostracized for scandalous behavior]
- banish fear, qualm.
- He was banished to Devil's Island.
- To banish sorrow.