DISPLACE in a Sentence

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34 example sentences for DISPLACE, such as:

1. Vibration displaced part of the mechanism.
2. She saw him displace the bar and slip into the garden.
3. Time is a great thing,can let fate displaced within Iraq.
4. This war will displace lots of refugees from their villages.
5. Marius displaced the bar, and rushed headlong into the garden.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISPLACE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
displace
 v.  move or shift from the usual place or position, especially to force to leave a homeland
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  He began by moving his bed, and looked around for anything with which he could pierce the wall, penetrate the moist cement, and displace a stone.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
2  He waited in order to allow pure air to displace the foul atmosphere, and then went on.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
3  At the same time he made an effort to displace the big iron-shod shoe which rested on his treasure.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
4  She saw him displace the bar and slip into the garden.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG
5  When I became Joe's 'prentice, Orlick was perhaps confirmed in some suspicion that I should displace him; howbeit, he liked me still less.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV
6  Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, which is waiting to be put away somewhere.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
7  When I come to think it over, the earth instead of the corpse will not seem like the real thing, it won't do, it will get displaced, it will move about.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
8  The angle at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS
9  Marius displaced the bar, and rushed headlong into the garden.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II—MARIUS
10  The truth seems to be that a long line of disillusive centuries has permanently displaced the Hellenic idea of life, or whatever it may be called.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
11  He had spent the time in working about the premises, sweeping leaves from the garden paths, cutting dead stalks from the flower beds, and nailing up creepers which had been displaced by the autumn winds.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
12  Some of this opposition is, of course, mere envy; the disappointment of displaced demagogues and the spite of narrow minds.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
13  Words and music have lost each other and new and cant phrases of a dimly understood theology have displaced the older sentiment.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIV
14  Presumably sausages were once chopped and stuffed by hand, and if so it would be interesting to know how many workers had been displaced by these inventions.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
15  The shadows were falling thicker now, the last greenish tinge had left the sky and a slight chill was displacing the balminess of spring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
Example Sentence:
1  This war will displace lots of refugees from their villages.
2  The building of a new dam will displace thousands of people who live in this area.
3  Time is a great thing,can let fate displaced within Iraq.
4  Coal has been displaced by natural gas as a major source of energy.
5  These factories have displaced tourism as the country's largest source of foreign exchange.
6  Vibration displaced part of the mechanism.
7  He displaced a bone in his knee in the crash with another player.
8  The number of people affected and displaced has increased since the conflict, and at the moment there seems little prospect for them to return to villages.
9  The humanitarian community is increasingly aware of the crisis of internal displacement which affects over 20 million people worldwide.
10  The threat to a craft of deep space is that its electronics might be wrecked; radiation slowly displaces atoms in solids, to the detriment of any electronic components those atoms are part of.