The phrase "banish evil" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to express a desire to get rid of something negative, such as suffering, hatred, or sin. For example, you could say, "Let us work together to banish evil and create a brighter future for everyone."
The dance's symbolic purpose is to banish evil spirits and summon good luck for the coming year.
A few holy men offered to banish evil spirits with the wave of a peacock feather duster.
Members of Kyrgyzstan's divided Parliament slaughtered seven rams before their morning session on Thursday, a sacrifice that they said they hoped would banish "evil spirits" disrupting their work.
To banish evil from the life of a client, the magician may invoke the cosmic myth whereby the forces of good triumph over the forces of evil.
Here Ms. Keane plays a preacher who thunders, "Thou shalt banish evil from thy mind, such as all thoughts of employee health benefits, paid overtime and wage parity.
DENGFENG, China — Midway through the grand spectacle "Zen Shaolin," a blue-robed monk on a huge outdoor stage crowded with martial-arts performers appears to banish evil spirits rhythmically with his fists in an artistic meditation of motion and fury.
The photographer Estelle Hanania has long been interested in depicting ritual: her past projects have included "Parking Lot Hydra," a series portraying a traditional Bulgarian masquerade aimed at banishing evil spirits, and "Glacial Jubilé," an anthropological view of wintertime folk traditions throughout Europe.
To listen to European football's governing body is to stand in awe of a superhero, working, in its own words, to "banish this evil from football and society".
Traditionally, disabled newborns were abandoned and their mothers were put through a ritual cleansing to banish the evil spirits that were said to have caused the disability, while the place where the birth took place was burned.
And it's why, 32 years after Mary Whitehouse attempted to banish The Evil Dead from our screens, Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi were able to resuscitate their little gore movie once again, this time in the guise of a 10-part, half-hour show titled Ash vs Evil Dead.
They'll have to get an ice resurfacer in there to scrape away the layers of filth, and then an exorcist to banish whatever evil has emerged from the Pandora's box that was Dr Alex lifting up the waistband of his pants like a boy who just discovered his first pube so that Alexandra could "knock" her hand against his curséd "Johnson".
