BANISH in a Sentence

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43 example sentences for BANISH, such as:

1. The king banished his wife from his bed.
2. Dear Victor, banish these dark passions.
3. I hereby banish it completely from my presence.
4. The king decided to banish him from the realm immediately.
5. Her manners were attaching, and soon banished his reserve.

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 Meanings and Examples of BANISH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
banish
 v.  drive out; drive away; compel to depart; dispel
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  Dear Victor, banish these dark passions.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  My father yielded at length to my desire to avoid society and strove by various arguments to banish my despair.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
3  I dare say we shall be often together, and I should like to banish any needless restraint between us.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
4  The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors, and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  It was impossible to banish the letter from her thoughts, and she could not relieve herself by speaking of it to any human being.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
6  I hereby banish it completely from my presence.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
7  Have a try therefore at something, and banish all sorrow from your mind.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VIII
8  There was nothing to cool or banish love in these circumstances, though much to create despair.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  While her tongue rambled on Gabriel tried to banish from his mind all memory of the unpleasant incident with Miss Ivors.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
10  They came in separate spurts, as though reminding me of themselves, but did not banish the dissipation by their appearance.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: II
11  But this idea was soon banished, and her spirits were very differently affected, when, to her utter amazement, she saw Mr. Darcy walk into the room.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34
12  And their mother had the satisfaction of knowing that she would be able to show her married daughter in the neighbourhood before she was banished to the North.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50
13  Mr. Heathcliff, who grew more and more disinclined to society, had almost banished Earnshaw from his apartment.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
14  His gentleness was never tinged by dogmatism, and his instructions were given with an air of frankness and good nature that banished every idea of pedantry.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
15  Her manners were attaching, and soon banished his reserve.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
Example Sentence:
1  The king decided to banish him from the realm immediately.
2  Unfortunately, the normal social reaction to atrocity is to banish it from our awareness.
3  The king banished his wife from his bed.