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Example sentences for "supplanted"

Lexicographically close words:
supper; supperless; suppers; supping; supplant; supplanter; supplanting; supplants; supple; suppled
  1. From Rome itself the iter ad Brundisium is still made by way of Beneventum; for the great mass of mankind Bologna has in this matter supplanted Beneventum and Rome too.

  2. Had we here a San Pietro, we should have very little doubt in setting down the prince of the Apostles as having supplanted the father of gods and men.

  3. But the whole is imperfect and broken down; one arch of the double entrance is blocked, and the other is supplanted by a later arch.

  4. Its elegant Renaissance interior has been already spoken of; it seems to have supplanted a Romanesque building the columns of which may have been used again.

  5. A rococo screen of open iron work, with his own arms in the centre, had supplanted the ancient screen.

  6. There can be no doubt that in modern art the great and important mysteries of Catholic truth have been in a great manner supplanted by the representations of novel devotions and dubious representations.

  7. Well, time wore on, the horse was supplanted by the automobile, congress shoes were relegated to the attic.

  8. But in our modern times, when the public market is largely supplanted by the great department store, shielded, protected, organized into a minimum of human interest and a maximum of efficiency, the charm of the market is no more.

  9. Sentimental songs of long ago, like a stream of soft desire through the years, supplanted precept in their minds, and I realized for the first time why some men chose to be missionaries.

  10. The second hand has unfortunately supplanted in this instance the work of the first.

  11. Baasha's son Elah was supplanted by his vizier Zimri, who, however, was in his turn unable to hold his own against Omri, who had supreme command of the army.

  12. The scriptural ordinance of the Lord’s supper had been supplanted by the idolatrous sacrifice of the mass.

  13. At that time many will separate themselves from those churches in which the love of this world has supplanted love for God and His word.

  14. This thought produced anger that supplanted all the softness and tenderness she had so lately felt.

  15. My concern for you and your health supplanted every other feeling.

  16. It afterwards declined in importance, being supplanted by Calicut, Goa, and eventually by Bombay.

  17. So, after all, the crust theory has been supplanted by a compromise theory rather than completely overthrown, and our knowledge of the condition of the telluric depths is still far from definite.

  18. A woman of that sort who is supplanted by a rival is about the most dangerous being on the face of the earth.

  19. Marriage will be instituted in places where it is now unknown, and savage practices be supplanted by the virtuous institutions of the gospel.

  20. Moreover, if homes are not to be supplanted by boarding houses and hotels, the great majority of women must stay at home and do the work which makes a home possible.

  21. Among tribes of men the ceaseless struggles for supremacy have pricked cowardice into courage, demanded self-control instead of temper, supplanted gluttony and drunkenness by temperance.

  22. Friction matches appeared in 1836, and quickly supplanted the clumsy method that had been employed for centuries.

  23. The Constitution supplied the great requirement without which the government itself would have been a nullity: the power to act supplanted the power simply to advise.

  24. Passion had supplanted duty in his disturbed mind; a passion so great it swept everything before it and he stood bare to the soul before the woman he had wronged and under the eyes of these men who knew it.

  25. Ermentrude had learned all she would both of this marriage and of the woman who had supplanted her, and had made her resolve.

  26. In fact, the mendicant orders supplanted the military orders as papal militia, just as they were later supplanted by the Jesuits, and they very greatly assisted the reorganization of the church into an absolute monarchy under the pope.

  27. Pagan ideas colored men’s thoughts; pagan ethics supplanted Christian morals; pagan theogony was better understood than the Christian catechism; and their influences spread not only through the schools, but to the cloister.

  28. No finer proof of Margaret’s noble heart could have been given than in this generosity to the woman who had supplanted her.

  29. Mahdism in the Sudan because it has been supplanted by the reign of law and of justice.

  30. After the Italian journeys science took the lead, the student of Nature supplanted the lover, even his symbolism took a more abstract and realistic form.

  31. The supervisor system, one from each township of the county, by order of the legislature, supplanted the county judge in 1861; and Marion was represented on this first board by A.

  32. It is not unlikely that these glacial men may have perished from off the face of the earth, having been crushed and supplanted by stronger races.

  33. Mrs. Arnold had received much flattering attention from Lord Melrose, and it wounded her pride when she heard that another had supplanted her.

  34. Mr. Verne was almost convinced that Cousin Jennie had supplanted Marguerite, and he well knew the proud nature of the latter.

  35. Marguerite having supplanted the nurse for the entire afternoon and having taken the precaution to learn from the good old doctor that her cheerful presence would do good turned the occasion to the best possible account.

  36. This method found entrance into the practice and held sway until about 1860, when the well-known improvements by Draudt and Urich supplanted it.

  37. The nearly pure hardwood forest of the southern Ontario peninsula has been almost entirely supplanted by farms, and here, even for domestic fuel, coal, imported from the United States, is largely substituted for wood.

  38. This was in 1785 supplanted by government administration of the woodyards.

  39. Fences were to be supplanted by hedges and ditches.

  40. A cape with smallish hood worn in the earlier reigns was supplanted about 1777 by the calash, a huge hood set out with whalebone which came to cover the full head-dresses.

  41. Advertisements of swimming suits and fishing tackle have supplanted the rhetorical decrees of the Spanish governors.

  42. The eagle of Mexico had soared above the lion of Castile, and a rebel had supplanted the King in the litany of prayers.

  43. For the latter purpose it was subsequently supplanted by the chatelaine.

  44. Towards the last years of the century buckles began to be supplanted by shoe strings.

  45. The description of these stones as "chiefly of a ruddy or aerial colour" would seem to indicate that garnets and turquoises had not even then been entirely supplanted by enamels.

  46. This lady had been supplanted in the affections of Francis I by another--the future Duchess of Estampes--who persuaded the King to claim all the fine jewels he had bestowed on his former mistress.

  47. The whole work shows that in the eighteenth century the stone cutter and stone setter had practically supplanted the artist in precious metals.

  48. Queylus, had been supplanted as curate by M.

  49. In 1627, a year of great famine, the above company was supplanted by the famous Company of One Hundred Partners or Associates.

  50. It may be for this reason that he was supplanted later in his office in the sénéchal's court by Sieur de Mouchy, who had been appointed by the Sovereign Council "for good reasons.

  51. On Citadel Hill, to the east of the town, the British flag supplanted the fleur-de-lys of France.

  52. The result was a coolness between the Saints and the old settlers, followed by suspicion on the part of the latter that they would be supplanted by the new comers.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supplanted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.