Example sentences for: banned

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

  • The government has also banned audiotapes and other entertainment media.

  • Newt Gingrich's disastrous championship of a Puerto Rican statehood bill is ridiculed: Almost no Republican voted for it in the House and Trent Lott has banned the measure from the Senate.

  • Ideologically uplifting operas were the only ones permitted during the Cultural Revolution; classical stories were banned.

  • The agency has shrunk over the past few years because it's been barred since 1995 from bringing class-action lawsuits and welfare reform challenges and banned from collecting attorneys fees from lawsuits and from doing any legislative lobbying.

  • In 1989, under pressure from groups alarmed by the destruction of African elephant herds, President Bush banned the import of ivory.


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