BANKS in a Sentence

Learn BANKS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for BANKS, such as:

1. which formerly dwelt on its banks.
2. The high street banks continue to prosper.
3. Many of the banks offer a poor level of customer service.
4. The company's entire assets are now in hock to the banks.
5. In spring the river's surface is often level with the banks.

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 Meanings and Examples of BANKS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
banking
 n.  engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc.
 n.  transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc.
bank
 n.  a business which performs services connected with money
 n.  the land alongside a river or lake
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I've made money enough, and it's in English banks and in gold.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  Never again could she think of them as quiet villages full of welcoming friends, as green places where she picnicked with handsome officers on the soft banks of slow-moving streams.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  My orders were to leave the gold in English banks, under my own name, in order that my credit would be good.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  She stood for a moment remembering small things, the avenue of dark cedars leading to Tara, the banks of cape jessamine bushes, vivid green against the white walls, the fluttering white curtains.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
5  The High Bridge crosses the Mississippi, mounting from low banks to a palisade of cliffs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  Yeh, I'm probably a yahoo, but by gum I do keep my independence by doing odd jobs, and that's more 'n these polite cusses like the clerks in the banks do.'
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  As we approached the Shimerdas' dwelling, I could still see nothing but rough red hillocks, and draws with shelving banks and long roots hanging out where the earth had crumbled away.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
8  Presently, against one of those banks, I saw a sort of shed, thatched with the same wine-coloured grass that grew everywhere.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
9  While the steers grazed, she used to sit on them grassy banks along the draws and sun herself for hours.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
10  The banks of "Bubbly Creek" are plastered thick with hairs, and this also the packers gather and clean.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  which formerly dwelt on its banks.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
12  From the banks of the big river to the shores of the salt lake, there was none to meet us.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
13  Then, replacing his knife and tomahawk in his girdle, the warrior moved silently to the edge of the rock which was most concealed from the banks of the river.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
14  The wooded banks of the river seemed again deserted by everything possessing animal life.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
15  When the banks of the little stream were gained, Hawkeye made another halt; and taking the moccasins from his feet, he invited Heyward and Gamut to follow his example.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The high street banks continue to prosper.
17  Many of the banks offer a poor level of customer service.
18  The company's entire assets are now in hock to the banks.
19  When the development bubble burst, federal regulators started probing the balance sheets of the biggest banks.
20  With interest rates, the smaller banks will take their cue from the Federal Bank.
21  In the financial sector, banks and insurance companies have both lost a lot of money.
22  Books are treasure banks storing wisdom passed down from generation to generation.
23  The new arrangements will help the banks in their ordinary day-to-day dealings.
24  The old-boy network still operates in some City banks.
25  The banks are lending money at a competitive rate of interest.
26  As a general point banks in many countries were highly regulated in relation to deposits and lending conducted in their own domestic currency.
27  The other banks are going to be very eager to help, provided that they see that he has a specific plan.
28  In spring the river's surface is often level with the banks.
29  For a long time he had been in correspondence with the chief banks in Shanghai and Macao.
30  The chairman warned that a deal with the banks must be struck by May; or, with major debt repayments due over in 18 months, the business could go bust.