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Example sentences for "supplanting"

Lexicographically close words:
suppers; supping; supplant; supplanted; supplanter; supplants; supple; suppled; supplement; supplemental
  1. From the eighth century Salamanca became an apple of discord between Moslem bands and the forces of early Castilian kings, Crescent and Cross constantly supplanting each other on her turrets.

  2. The Ancient Britons are no more; Saxon Israel has entirely supplanted them, just as Manasseh in the United States is supplanting the aborigines or Indians.

  3. And why is it that the English is supplanting all others?

  4. To him, even in his poverty, the thought that he was supplanting a brother clergyman so kind and courteous as Mr. Harding had been very bitter.

  5. But Mr. Quiverful had long been acquainted with Mr. Harding, and had received kindness at his hands, so that his heart misgave him as he thought of supplanting a friend at the hospital.

  6. Since these results appear to be satisfactory, it is natural to expect further attempts with the same object of supplanting the ordinary steeping.

  7. When Sigismund was fairly seated on the throne, there followed an endless series of bickerings, as the rites and ceremonies and usages of the Roman Church were restored, supplanting the simpler worship which had prevailed for twenty years.

  8. During this period of antagonism to Rome the University of Paris had contributed no little to the abasement of the Inquisition by supplanting it as an investigator of doctrine and judge of heresy.

  9. We admit nothing more, in answer to the insinuations of Saint Simon, that dazzled with the royal favour she had dreamed of supplanting Madame de Maintenon in the great King's confidence.

  10. Ancus Marcius, he succeeded in supplanting them on the throne on their father's death.

  11. It seemed to the Papacy that in undermining and supplanting Imperial Rome they had gained a great victory for Christ.

  12. It was relieving the labourer from the burden of his toil, supplanting manual by mechanical action.

  13. He would divide the Minamoto power by way of preliminary to supplanting it.

  14. He had just succeeded in quelling the defection of the Nitta family, and his military power was so great that his captains conceived the ambition of marching to Kyoto and supplanting Yoshiakira by Motouji.

  15. Brantome, who was certainly one of those who believed in the jealousy of Philip, if not in the passion of Isabella, states the circumstance of the king's supplanting his son in a manner sufficiently naive.

  16. Brusk seems to be supplanting brusque as risky is supplanting risqué.

  17. And these vassals were supplanting native humanity as the plant was supplanting the native products of the soil.

  18. It was supplanting wood in the making of steam.

  19. Few and far between are these evidences of the native race, and few and far between, also, are evidences of the new nation that is supplanting it.

  20. His first onslaught upon Ranade's position, however, failed, and instead of supplanting him, it was he who was compelled in 1890 to sever his connexion with the Education Society.

  21. Danger of the French colonizing Senegal, and supplanting us, and thereby depreciating the Value of our West-India Islands.

  22. The man who is now making the profits is increasing his output, supplanting less efficient rivals, and giving consumers the benefit of his newly attained efficiency in the shape of lower prices of goods.

  23. In 1971 railroads carried by far the greatest volume of long-distance freight and passenger traffic, but highway transport was supplanting them in short-haul traffic of both types.

  24. System supplanting railroads as major short-haul carrier of freight and passengers.

  25. He was distressed at supplanting Richard, and would greatly prefer the property taking its natural course.

  26. In the hopes of supplanting the romances generally found in the hands of the young, Jimenes caused to be published religious treatises by himself and others.

  27. They are his ultimate criteria and resort, and they conflict with those which the supplanting faith presents as the summum bonum of life.

  28. Unfortunately, western habits are now coming into vogue, and, in the case of men and women alike, the clothing of the West is partially supplanting that of the East.

  29. Christophe was interesting and did not interfere with anybody: there was no danger of his supplanting anybody.

  30. In the Peloponnesus peasant proprietorship is almost universal; elsewhere it is gradually supplanting the metayer system; the small properties vary from 2 or 3 to 50 acres.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supplanting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agency; change; commutation; delegation; deputation; displacement; exchange; replacement; representation; substitution; supplanting; switch