All 14 Uses of
banish
in
The Maze Runner
- Banished, no questions.†
Chpt 9
- He's being Banished.†
Chpt 13
- Banished?†
Chpt 13
- It still bothered Thomas how Chuck had smiled when breaking the news about Ben being Banished.†
Chpt 13
- Ben of the Builders, you've been sentenced to Banishment for the attempted murder of Thomas the Newbie.†
Chpt 14
- Keepers, take your place on the Banishment Pole.†
Chpt 14
- At the last second, the front Keeper somehow loosened the larger pole from the piece attached to Ben and yanked it back into the Glade, leaving the boy to his Banishment.†
Chpt 14
- But now he was gone, Banished to the world of the Grievers, taken to wherever they took their prey, victim to whatever was done there.
Chpt 15 *banished = expelled from the communityeditor's notes: In this book, banished is capitalized and refers to a specific legal penalty, but the underlying meaning is the same.
- Thomas didn't say anything to that, hoping that somehow he could go through the entire day without talking about Ben and the Banishment.†
Chpt 15
- Only seen three Banishments, Tommy.†
Chpt 15
- Zart was the tall, black-haired kid who'd stood at the front of the pole during Ben's Banishment, and who for some odd reason smelled like sour milk.†
Chpt 16
- I'm the bloody Chair right now, and if I hear one more buggin' word out of turn from you, I'll be arrangin' another Banishing for your sorry butt.†
Chpt 24
- You should be Banished for your embarrassing inability to lead this group.†
Chpt 25
- That shuck-face is gonna pay a heavy price for acting like that—he's lucky we don't Banish him.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(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