Delete lines containing and remove the blank line at the same time

Is there a way to delete a line containing something and the blank line at the same time?

If you do this it leaves a blank line behind.

sed '/yum/d' .bash_history

I know this works but I would think there would be a way to do it with one command

 sed '/yum/d' .bash_history | sed '/^$/d'

In vi this also leaves a blank line behind.

:g/yum/d

In vi this removes the blank line.

:g/^\s*$/d

try..

sed -e '/yum/d' -e '/^$/d' .bash_history

or try

sed '/^$\|yum/d'

sed -n '/^$\|yum/!p'