1 Levin could not make out why the opposition was to ask the marshal to stand whom they wanted to supersede.
2 He grazed his cattle on these slopes, and he learned to dig for tin when the bronze sword began to supersede the stone axe.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House 3 He hustled on his overcoat, and bustled about in a way that showed that an energetic fit had superseded the apathetic one.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 4 Hogben's Folly was still eminent; the very flat, field-parcelled land had changed only in this--the tractor had to some extent superseded the plough.
5 This obscure, obsolete, superseded country figures in Domesday.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 6 It was almost as if the other face, the face of the superseded woman, had obliterated that of the intruder.
7 Gradually, unnoticed, all these persons began to disappear and a single question, that of the closed door, superseded all else.