BANE in a Sentence

Learn BANE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for BANE, such as:

1. A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane.
2. Keeping noise levels low is the bane of airport administration.
3. I am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my children are the bane of my life.
4. But this long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.
5. He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror.

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bane
 n.  something causes misery or death; curse; fatal injury or ruin
Classic Sentence:
1  But this long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
2  I am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my children are the bane of my life.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
3  He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  Lucy's little brother was the bane of her existence: his attempts to make her life miserable worked so well that she could have poisoned him.
2  A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane.
3  Keeping noise levels low is the bane of airport administration.