How To Use Supplanting In A Sentence
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Multipolarity was already supplanting unipolarity.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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De Niro delivers an incendiary performance as Johnny Boy, in the process supplanting Keitel as Scorcese's ideal on-screen alter ego.
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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
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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.
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It's truly a euphoric piece, supplanting the vocalists' rage and rediverting it to become almost an affirmation of life.
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Large steamships were supplanting smaller sailing vessels as the main carriers of slaves.
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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.
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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
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(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
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RHP Brandon Lyon parlayed his surprising spring performance into the opening day closer job, supplanting RHP Greg Aquino.
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Reality is no longer the trusted referent of ‘news’ programs, as visual re-creation and graphic manipulation join analysis and conjecture in supplanting documentation and reportage.
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Artists borrowed another kind of luster, too, gradually supplanting their social betters as gleaming examples of how to act, how to look and how to feel.
Intensely Familiar, Yet Strangely Remote
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Small-scale, short-run production processes depending on multi-skilled labour were now supposedly supplanting the era of mass production, driven by new structures of diversified consumer demand and volatile economic conditions.
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The pad began to curvet as the post horses rattled behind, and the Parson had only an indistinct vision of a human face supplanting these human legs.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
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For many years the old tactical unit called the maniple had proven too small to contend with the massive, undisciplined armies the legions often had to fight; the cohort — three times the size of the maniple — had been gradually supplanting it in actual practice.
The First Man in Rome
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Large steamships were supplanting smaller sailing vessels as the main carriers of slaves.
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PDAs are supplanting the conventional mobile data collection and display devices found in inventory applications ranging from shipping through picking and receiving, raw materials and finished goods, toolrooms and stockrooms.
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This inimitable project aside, the search for visual rather than textual material has been dominant in Courbet studies, supplanting the logocentric premise of iconography.
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It is entirely to be ascribed to the supplanting, _in the national subsistence, of a large part of home produce by an equally large part of foreign produce_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
