搬 (bān) means Moves. Below are 17 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
我们帮他 搬 桌子。
Wǒmen bāng tā bān zhuōzi.
We are helping him move the table.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 搬
他答应帮我 搬 家。
Tā dāying bāng wǒ bān jiā.
He agreed to help me move house.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 答应
他指挥大家 搬 东西。
Tā zhǐhuī dàjiā bān dōngxi.
He directed everyone in moving things.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 指挥
搬 东西要注意保护腰。
Bān dōngxi yào zhùyì bǎohù yāo.
Protect your back when moving things.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 腰
他主动帮我们 搬 东西。
Tā zhǔdòng bāng wǒmen bān dōngxi.
He offered to help us move things.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 主动
一队蚂蚁正在 搬 运食物。
Yí duì mǎyǐ zhèngzài bānyùn shíwù.
A line of ants is carrying food.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 蚂蚁
他嫌这里太吵， 搬 走了。
Tā xián zhèlǐ tài chǎo, bān zǒu le.
He found it too noisy here and moved away.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 嫌
工人把砖一块块 搬 了进来。
Gōngrén bǎ zhuān yí kuài kuài bān le jìnlái.
The workers carried the bricks in one by one.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 砖
这个箱子太重了，我 搬 不动。
Zhège xiāngzi tài zhòng le, wǒ bān bu dòng.
This case is too heavy for me to move.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 重
公司把生产基地 搬 到了南方。
Gōngsī bǎ shēngchǎn jīdì bān dào le nánfāng.
The company moved its production base to the south.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 基地
那个大家伙 搬 起来可不容易。
Nàge dà jiāhuo bān qǐlái kě bù róngyì.
That big thing is not easy to move.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 家伙
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From the graded readers
上个月我 搬 家了。
shànggèyuè wǒ bānjiā le / liǎo / liào.
I moved house last month.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
这个月我 搬 到了一个新房间。
zhège yuè wǒ bāndào le / liǎo / liào yīgè xīnfáng jiān.
This month I moved into a new room.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My New Room
那个声音又重又慢，像有人在 搬 东西。
nèigè shēngyīn yòu zhòng / chóng yòu màn, xiàng yǒurén zài bān dōngxī.
It was heavy and slow, like someone moving furniture.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
最难的不是 搬 ，而是决定什么东西要扔。
zuì nán de / dì búshì bān, érshì juédìng shénme dōngxī yāo rēng.
The hard part wasn't the carrying — it was deciding what to throw away.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
原来那个声音不是 搬 东西，是他的拐杖。
yuánlái nèigè shēngyīn búshì bān dōngxī, shì tāde guǎi zhàng.
So the noise wasn't furniture at all — it was his walking stick.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
我 搬 来这里以后，很快就发现了一个问题。
wǒ bān lái zhèlǐ yǐhòu, hěnkuài jiù fāxiànle yīgè wèntí.
Soon after I moved here I noticed a problem.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
Questions about 搬
How is 搬 used in a sentence?
This page shows 17 sentences using 搬 (bān, "Moves"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 搬 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 搬 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 搬 an HSK word?
Yes — 搬 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 搬?
The dictionary page for 搬 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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