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How to use the word banished in a Sentence?

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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

Justice Joseph Story

added by Normando
1 year ago

I always thought the bible would be better if there were light sabers in it. When I told this to God he banished me to Calcutta.

Mother Teresa

added by baronrancid1
1 year ago

If a Jew who is a liberal, who is left wing says,' I'm a Blake Flayton,' they're not given the space to explain all of what that means. That word means is that you support the Jewish right to self-determination in part of Julia Jassey ancestral homeland, not even specifying where the borders are, not even specifying which government they would like to see in charge in Israel, they're not given the space to explain that. They're banished.

Blake Flayton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I just lost a lot of different colors of My Voice, singing is really complex. And I was made most aware of it by having it banished. I can still sing in my mind, but I can't do it physically.

Linda Ronstadt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As long as desire is banished from the kingdom of Heaven, there will always be a long line at the Gates of Hell.

Douglas Carlton Abrams

added by Artlover87
4 years ago

In the ads, Trump is saying she's under criminal investigation. That revives everything that had been buried and banished when he gave her this sort of semi-exoneration in July.

Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

He's America's Jesus Christ on a bicycle. He comes back from the dead, he heals the sick, and then we found out that our Son of God is a doping liar. And now we've banished him.

Ben Foster

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Herbert Hoover

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Vannevar Bush

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Francesco Petrarch

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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