All 14 Uses
banish
in
Touching Spirit Bear
(Edited)
- Cole strained at the cuffs even though he had agreed to wear them until he was freed on the island to begin his banishment.
Chpt 1banishment = to expel or get rid of
- In the rear of the skiff sat Edwin, a quiet, potbellied Tlingit elder who had helped arrange Cole's banishment.
Chpt 1
- "You'll wear them reversed for the first two weeks of your banishment to show humility and shame," Edwin said, his voice hard as stone.
Chpt 1
- When his father had agreed to pay all the expenses of banishment, it was just another one of his buyouts.
Chpt 2
- This banishment was the ultimate hurt--worse than his father's fists and belt, worse than his mother's never caring.
Chpt 3
- It is possible I could make arrangements to have Cole banished to a remote island on the Inland Passage.
Chpt 6banished = expelled or gotten rid of
- What makes banishment work is the extreme isolation.
Chpt 6banishment = to expel or get rid of
- Banishment isn't a sentence.
Chpt 6
- Sentencing would be delayed until the end of Cole's banishment.
Chpt 6
- You do know that banishment is much harder than any jail cell, don't you?
Chpt 6 *banishment = being forced to leave a community and not return (in this case, for a period of time)
- Three weeks ago, the crew of a fishing boat returning to Drake claimed they had seen a white bear on an island near where Cole was banished.
Chpt 15banished = expelled or gotten rid of
- It had been a month since Edwin first announced this return to the island and, true to his word, he had insisted that every penny of the second banishment be funded with the sale of Cole's belongings in Minneapolis.
Chpt 16banishment = to expel or get rid of
- When I was banished to this island, I came to this pond to get rid of my anger.
Chpt 17banished = expelled or gotten rid of
- Nobody ever would have guessed that this morning marked the beginning of Cole's yearlong banishment.
Chpt 20banishment = to expel or get rid of
Definitions:
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(1)
(banish) to expel or get rid ofin various senses, including:
- to force someone to leave a country as punishment
- to push an idea from the mind
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)