supplanting

How To Use supplanting In A Sentence

• Multipolarity was already supplanting unipolarity. Times, Sunday Times
• Where movies rarely deal in any realistic way with the problems of work and family, these shows tell the modern story of the work-family supplanting the real-family.
• De Niro delivers an incendiary performance as Johnny Boy, in the process supplanting Keitel as Scorcese's ideal on-screen alter ego.
• One of Davidson's grumbles is the fact that the new words which jostle out the old are getting shorter, as text-speak becomes ubiquitous and Twitter puts a premium on brevity, with "tx" replacing "thanks" and "soz" - yuk - supplanting "sorry". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• The new hiking guides not only abandoned the skills of woodcraft, they also abandoned its masculine rhetoric, supplanting it with language and metaphors that appealed to women and men alike.
• It's truly a euphoric piece, supplanting the vocalists' rage and rediverting it to become almost an affirmation of life.
• Large steamships were supplanting smaller sailing vessels as the main carriers of slaves.
• He feared the danger of excitement replacing understanding, and the awakening of feelings supplanting the indoctrination of the understanding and the cultivation of the heart.
• French school, by which, at serious issues, the guarding of the line can be more quickly done: as, for instance, the 'parade de septime' supplanting the slower 'parade de prime;' the 'parade de quarte' having advantage over the 'parade de quince;' the 'parade de tierce' being readier and stronger than the 'parade de sixte;' the same said for the Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
• (Consider also the effect of state-run broadcasting outside the US — the Glock era at the BBC, for example — which didn't result in modernism supplanting pop by any means, but definitely increased its local market share.) Greetings from Hooverville