banishment

Example Sentences

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Let’s say you were ordered deported and you now faced banishment from your country.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2026

"I said, I need it for social media," she told Traitors Uncloaked on Friday after her dramatic banishment.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

Part hobo, part insult comic, part performance artist, Diogenes flaunted his disregard for convention in ways that scandalized the bourgeoisie of Athens and, later, Corinth, after his banishment from Sinope became permanent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

It may not have been felonious enough to demand civil punishment, but it certainly required banishment from the game and from any of its rewards.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2025

The warrior bonding with him was no guarantee he would escape banishment, but it was something that could not be easily ignored.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins