Example sentences for: banned

How can you use “banned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (My friends in the administration tell me that the word "taxes" has been banned even from internal discussions about environmental policy.)

  • He initiated a military takeover of the Communist Party, and the government arrested thousands of Solidarity activists and sympathizers, banned the trade union, and suspended civil rights.

  • Caniçal was once a famous whaling port, but since whaling was banned in these waters in 1981, all that remains of this formerly lucrative industry is a Museum of Whaling and a few scrimshaw and whalebone souvenirs in a hut by the beach (more of the same is on sale at the car park at the end of the road heading east).

  • Canyoning, a combination of rappelling and riding rapids without boats, sometimes described as whitewater rafting without the raft, has been banned in several U.S. states.

  • According to the NYT lead, the governor of the Bank of Japan told Rubin and Greenspan that the capital behind his nation's top 19 banks has dwindled so low that if international rules requiring capital on hand to be at least 8 percent of total outstanding loans were strictly enforced, they might be banned from operating overseas.


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