How To Use Dethrone In A Sentence

  • (Darius Nothus) (423-404 B.C.), the younger _Cyrus_ undertook to dethrone his brother _Artaxerxes II_., and for that purpose organized, in Asia Outline of Universal History
  • a "tapetless, ramfeezl'd hizzie," "saft at best an 'something lazy;" she is a "thowless jad;" or she is dethroned altogether: Robert Burns How To Know Him
  • It was only at the foot of his own table, after ladling out and serving around the stewed oysters "hot and hot," that the commodore, rubbing his hands, and smiling until his great face was as grotesque as a nutcracker's, announced that Miss Nancy Skamp was turned out of office -- yea, discrowned, unsceptred, dethroned, and that Harry Barnwell reigned in her stead. The Missing Bride
  • With Saturday's all-around finals set up as a Russian duel, Chaschina was asked if she could dethrone the reigning world champ.
  • Make suggestion on the stock of slacken,[Sentence dictionary] over stock and dethrone. Destroy it after approved.
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  • For the first time in the history of Europe, a monarch was not only dethroned by the masses, but also executed.
  • The dethronement of learning is one of the most exciting intellectual frontiers we are now crossing.
  • In 1688 when the British Parliament dethroned James II and established political supremacy over the monarchy, its bill of rights became the fundamental, durable instrument of constitutional law.
  • Kerala dethroned defending champion Manipur to win its maiden title.
  • The television drama series "Mad Men" kept its crown as the best drama series at the 62nd annual Emmy Awards, as the comedy show "Modern Family" dethroned "30 Rock" to establish itself as the best in the genre. Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News
  • “Voltaire,” he informs them, “declares there is no God;” he was “an antitheist, that is one who deliberately and avowedly opposed and hated God; who swore in his blasphemy that he would dethrone him;” and “advocated the very depths of the lowest sensuality.” The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
  • In 1952 Egypt's King Farouk was dethroned and replaced by the pro-Sudanese General Neguib.
  • In 525 B., Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the Great, led a Persian invasion force that dethroned the last pharaoh of the 26th Dynasty.
  • The very popular and flamboyant politician has been leaving everyone in his wake in the competition in recent years and the word is that a major effort will be made to dethrone him this year.
  • So one positive side of my dethronement is the fact that I can now mingle with the masses, thanks to my newfound freedom.
  • Our kinglet is a hard master," said he, with a sigh, "and I really wish some one would get up a revolution and dethrone him. John Dough And The Cherub
  • Hirst was once one of a new generation that contemptuously dethroned the old with the pzazz of bad behaviour, and art that was little more than a succession of stunts and gimmicks. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
  • Dethroned UK champion Mark Williams sympathised with the opinion of fellow shock second round loser Ken Doherty complaining that top 16 cuemen shouldn't have to play in the earlier rounds.
  • As a result, attempts to dethrone Henry were poorly supported in England and the Yorkist pretenders (such as Lambert Simnel in 1487) failed to carry conviction.
  • She argued that Camp, a style marked by extravagance, epicene in character, expressed a new sensibility that would "dethrone the serious. A Very Public Intellectual
  • ‘A single villa can mark a landscape’, said Ruskin, ‘and dethrone a dynasty of hills’, rightly enough.
  • Sunday while comedy show "Modern Family" dethroned "30 Rock" to establish itself as the best in the genre. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • And later, a cold Budweiser creates a hot controversy in Germany, where they're ready to dethrone the ‘king of beers.’
  • We might show how reason is here overpowered and dethroned; how the remonstrances of virtue, already decayed and emaciated, become vain and futile; how man, bent upon sensual gratification, rushes on, brutifies himself, inflames his passions but the more, An Address to the People of North Carolina, on the Evils of Slavery. By The Friends of Liberty and Equality
  • There was even a serious attempt to dethrone a batting king seven decades after he won his title.
  • Has 'Dancing With the Stars' dethroned 'American Idol' as America's No. 1 show? Mjsbigblog
  • The King was only too happy to banish them from his kingdom and to remove their titles as the Duke and Duchess were gaining too much support, and King Gavonlee was afraid they would try to dethrone him.
  • Hunter is confident that he has the ability to dethrone the defending champion.
  • Move over Blocker, you've been usurped, dethroned and pretty-much dumped as Rugby League's loosest lip.
  • If sustained, the cessation of great power war would dethrone military interaction from its millennia-long reign as the principal defining process of international systems.
  • It is the first time in seven years that the kings of football have been dethroned.
  • In $56.6 Million Debut Weekend Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" dethroned "Iron Man" as ruler at the box office, pulling down $56.6 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. 'Prince Caspian' Passes 'Iron Man'
  • The Manassa Mauler' Jack Dempsey brutally beat down and dethroned reigning 6'6 champion Jess Willard in three violent rounds at the Bay View Park Arena in Toledo, Ohio.
  • No sooner had gold asserted itself as an absolute monarch than it was dethroned.
  • Other Mughal rulers held on to power with diminishing influence until the year 1858, when the British dethroned the last Mughal king Bahadur shah Zarfar II.
  • And despite some ragged games and contract holdouts at the beginning of the season, it will take some mighty tough play to dethrone the defending champions.
  • Venus' next foe is Australia's Alicia Molik, who has confidence she can dethrone the queen of Flushing Meadows.
  • The king of beasts may soon be dethroned, as conflicts between African lions and humans contribute to the big cats' population decline.
  • It was these very doubts and fears which led him to see and resee so frequently the dethroned Charles, and which at last drove the conscience-stricken Puritan into the sepulchre of the decapitated king, that he might gaze into the still face of the royal victim, whose death he had himself effected. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • But, after Varennes, the mistrust built up by his long record of apparent ambivalence burst out into widespread demands from the populace of the capital and a number of radical publicists for the king to be dethroned.
  • An unseeded player dethroned the reigning champion in the first round.
  • We dethrone the heroes of the day and exalt new ones in the journals and popular media.
  • in dislodging the tyrant and proclaiming his dethronement before the National Assembly. The Ruin of a Princess
  • It was the perfect ending to a storybook season, that saw the 17-year-old Russian dethrone Williams at Wimbledon to become the darling of the tennis world.
  • a fact previously well observed, and nothing has occurred to dethrone the founder of cerebral science, Dr. Gall, who ranks immeasurably beyond all his contemporaries, and who prepared the way for the full development of Cerebral Psychology, resulting from the discovery of the _impressibility of the brain_, which has opened the entire realm of _cerebral psychology_, and through that has given us access to every realm of wisdom. Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1
  • Democrats picked an unlikely candidate to try to dethrone the Republican senator.
  • It may have something to do with animacy whereby an inanimate noun (which hil is proven to be in Etruscan due to plural hilχva attested in the Liber Linteus) probably cannot be treated as the subject of a transitive verb and therefore is dethroned to a position after the verb to specify mere agent of the action instead (like a kind of 'afterthought', let's say) while still treated as an unmarked nominative noun. Archive 2008-04-01
  • The media regarded Gorbachev as the odds-on favorite to dethrone the old champ.
  • If this was boxing, Wexford would now be the reigning champions, having dethroned Kilkenny.
  • There is a similar parallel between the revolution of 1399 which dethroned Richard II and that of 1688 which ended the reign of James II.
  • The notion that humanity was dethroned from a central place in creation requires careful qualification.
  • The world champion was dethroned by a young Swedish challenger.
  • The King was Tian's viceroy on earth and was enthroned or dethroned at his will.
  • And in the end we get to see a really ugly picture of her character as a band of ragtag misfits dethrone the queen on her way to winning the hottest sorority contest with FHM magazine. Last Night’s Entertainment: National Lampoon movies
  • Wails of disappointment and jeers echoed through France after their beloved ‘Les Bleus’ were dethroned as world champions without even scoring a goal.
  • It remains to be seen whether America's king of the Tour is dethroned or retires at the very top with a seventh triumph.
  • Once king of the railways and then throughly dethroned, it is once again chasing train franchise retenders. Times, Sunday Times
  • Valen is the last of royal blood and no one will dethrone him because no one wants the country to fall out of the hands of your family.
  • A critical turning point occurred in 1319 when Rinchan, a Laddakhi Buddhist Bhotia, dethroned the Hindu ruler Sahdev, and married Sahdev's wife, Kotarani.
  • After Tapia vacated the title in favour of a fruitless attempt to dethrone featherweight king Marco Antonio Barrera, Medina faced fellow Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez in February for the vacant IBF featherweight championship.
  • 'hecatomb' (more dethronement rhetoric), the factor of laws and regulation is built into the evolution of complex economies, which only arise in their modern form under very special conditions, and which are set up by the deliberate tactics of 'free market' policy makers. Darwiniana
  • The psychologist Alfred Adler concluded that middle children, who had neither suffered the indignity of being "dethroned" like the eldest sibling, nor the pampered indulgence of the youngest, had the best chance of growing into successful, well-adjusted adults. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • Lanre Atijosan, also from Prendergast, then dethroned the reigning champion in the long jump with a mark of 5.65 metres.
  • The King is being dethroned, that's what's happening.
  • In 476 AD, the last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus was dethroned by the German general Odoacer, ending the Western Empire. Philip Giraldi: Neocon Ancient History
  • If the King does not abdicate, he will have to be dethroned
  • Both fighters are in a redemption mission after being dethroned of their SA flyweight and junior flyweight titles respectively.
  • When you started out as a pro and dethroned the King, Arnold Palmer, in his backyard at the 1962 U.S. Open, the public wasn't nearly as fond of you as it is now.
  • It took ‘Bionic’ Bob Chamberlain to finally dethrone Bob Glass from his reign as king of the PBA Senior Pennsylvania Open.
  • Andre Agassi was dethroned after a three-year reign at Key Biscayne but Serena Williams finds her crown still fits perfectly even after an eight-month layoff.
  • Fischer became an icon in 1972 when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in a series of games in Reykjavik to claim America's first world chess championship in more than a century.
  • In a kingdom of northern India in 1856, the British plot to dethrone the ruler, whom they consider effete, and turn the land over to be ruled by the East India Company.
  • Holomisa said when he was "dethroned" he received a lot of messages calling for the establishment of a new political party. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The world champion was dethroned in the third round of the match by a young challenger.
  • It has been exciting, though bittersweet, to see captive-born stallions - after so successfully readapting to the land of their ancestors - be dethroned by a generation of rivals that they sired.
  • The dethronement of learning is one of the most exciting intellectual frontiers we are now crossing.
  • When degenerate love runs riot, it dethrones the Almighty, makes gods of clay and besots itself before them. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
  • When the emperor was dethroned, Diem replaced him.
  • Giggs struck a superb equaliser for Sir Alex Ferguson's side as their latest quest to dethrone Barcelona at the pinnacle of European football survived a stern examination by Benfica.
  • They did not attempt to put one king in place of another, but to dethrone human nature and discrown the very manhood of the race. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
  • That's no way to dethrone the defending champs.
  • Given these realities, anyone who opposes U.S. military action to dethrone him has a responsibility to suggest how he might otherwise be ushered out the back door of Baghdad.
  • An unexpected best-seller, "Crockery Cookery" dethroned "The Joy of Sex" as the No. 1 selling trade paperback in June of 1975, providing a clue as to which is the stronger human urge. Crock-Pot Chef Fed Slow-Cook Craze
  • Dethroned monarchs and fallen statesmen would not have needed to remonstrate against a domicil so spacious, so deeply secluded from the world's scorn, and so admirably in accordance with their thenceforward sunless fortunes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
  • In such surprisals of sin, although the affections may be ensnared, and the judgment and conscience by their tumultuating dethroned for a season, yet the will still maketh head against sin in believers, and crieth out that, whether it will or no, it is captived and violently overborne, calling for relief like a man surprised by an enemy. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
  • Indeed, with this powerful haptic and aural dimensions, it dethrones the classic dominion of ‘sight’ (with its correlatives of omniscience and surveillance).
  • I think Jay Cutler was at his best, but it wasn't good enough to dethrone the reigning Mr. Olympia, Ronnie Coleman.
  • The new constitution of 1945 dethroned the king and established a federal communist party state.
  • The nine-year-old King Simeon II, of the same royal house as Queen Victoria's consort, Prince Albert, was dethroned by a referendum held while Soviet troops remained in Bulgaria after World War II.
  • Men in frenzies often wound and destroy themselves; what is a man, when reason is dethroned and Satan enthroned? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)

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