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How to use bane in a sentence

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But his good work was nipped due to power hungry petty politics in sport, which is the bane in most sport bodies, here.
At most media companies, corrections are a pox, a bane on the reporter's existence.
Eliot Ness was the intrepid lawman who busted Al Capone and was the bane of the Mob in 1930s Chicago.
The bane of the sensitive singer-songwriter is the indifferent blabbermouth at the bar.
An anthology escapes this bane if it serves as an introduction to more extensive study of the subject.
I have not the answer to this conundrum that has become the bane of my existence.
You have been the bane of my life ever since you were born with your whining and your constant need of me!
The lack of patience from their batsmen has often been the bane of Bangladesh's cricket team.
With promotion being the spirit of the times, football's provincialisation is considered a bane by many of the sport's pundits.
This almost always means advertising, the bane of readers' existence, but it's the reason most content on the net remains free for the asking.
I spotted movement in the grass, looked down and there was the bane of gardeners and groundsmen everywhere, a mole.
That evil is malevolent violence, a curse that is the bane of our human existence.
Those bad tempered personnel manning counters in the revenue offices will no longer be the bane of citizens' existence.
Cell phones make it much easier to suffer through the brutal traffic jams that are the bane of city life around the world.
They had to be counted, bagged and labelled and they were the bane of my life.
All I am to him is the bane of his existence, the blight of his life, the central focus of why he hates his job and wants to kill himself.
This was because opposable thumbs or not, buttons would forever be the bane of his life.
Despite the financial security an older man can offer younger women, their eccentricities can be the bane of her life.
The 73, the busiest bus-route in London, was the bane of my life when I lived in Stoke Newington.
This issue has absolutely been the bane of my life in this country for 32 years.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Bote he is dem young faller bane goin' 'round hare dees two, t'ree days, lukin' lak preacher out of a yob.
Their artificiality is at once their bane and their source of superior pride.
Happily they found not that pernicious bane which is alike the corrupter of private morals and the debaucher of nations.
That wreath of roses which thou didst steep within the cup is dewed with deadly bane.
Ye have power, it is true, to extrude me from this new world, but my presence will be a bane to you in the old.
My Oscar, he bane pay two dollar gold to a faller in Sout Brooklyn fer trimmin up our own bulldogs tail.
Gambling is the bane of this land of idleness, where they get men from Lucca to do their harvesting.
Tune the pipes to the tragedy of tallow, the bane of bulk, the calamity of corpulence.
As the expeller of hard money, small notes were the bane and curse of a country.
The monster is the fosterling of Hera in the Homeric hymn, and the bane of flocks and herds.
Jealousy and distrust are the bane of friendship, whose essence is esteem and affiance.
These garments, made by my mother's own hands, had long been the bane of my existence.
The scorn of that old woman at Houghton, had been the bane of her existence.
Outsiders are the bane of the police as of other professions.
But where did he come from, the little dark thing, harboured by a good man to his bane?
It was the bane of a low connexion poisoned all hope of recovery.
Harpies of this ilk are the bane of sight-seeing all the world over.
Later these natural rights came to be the bane of juristic thinking.
Such anonymous reporting in the past, dating back to the monarchial years, has often been a bane of the Iranian justice system.
Azazel, brother to Armaros and bane of the ancients, has escaped his desert purgatory of 8,000 years and thirsts for retribution.
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