SUPPLANT in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for SUPPLANT, such as:
1. Rage supplanted religious fervor.
2. All are supplanted sooner or later.
3. He was supplanted out of the house by his wife.
4. The gentleman does nothing, while the peasant works and supplants the idle man.
5. It would be very sorely strained if there was another woman likely to supplant her with him.
2. All are supplanted sooner or later.
3. He was supplanted out of the house by his wife.
4. The gentleman does nothing, while the peasant works and supplants the idle man.
5. It would be very sorely strained if there was another woman likely to supplant her with him.
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Meanings and Examples of SUPPLANT
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supplant
v. replace; usurp; displace and substitute for another
Classic Sentence:
1 It would be very sorely strained if there was another woman likely to supplant her with him.
2 But I thought you were a Catalan, and they told me the Catalans were not men to allow themselves to be supplanted by a rival.
3 With the rapid instinct of selfishness, Caderousse readily perceived the solidity of this mode of reasoning; he gazed, doubtfully, wistfully, on Danglars, and then caution supplanted generosity.
4 Rage supplanted religious fervor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
Context Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
5 All are supplanted sooner or later.
6 He was successfully supplanted for a while, at the beginning of the present century, by Buonaparte; but as process of time rendered the latter personage stale and ineffective the older phrase resumed its early prominence.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
7 Pride and exultation were supplanted by humility, and the fiercest of human passions was already succeeded by the most profound and unequivocal demonstrations of grief.
8 The gentleman does nothing, while the peasant works and supplants the idle man.
9 At the same time the severity with which he had treated her lulled the sharpness of his regret for his mother, and awoke some of his old solicitude for his mother's supplanter.
Example Sentence:
1 As the younger generation replaces the older, the new alliances supplant the existing political coalitions.
2 "No exit or entry screening will supplant the need for state and local health departments, for clinicians and for individuals to be aware and to think Ebola."
3 He was supplanted out of the house by his wife.