SUPPLANT in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for SUPPLANT, such as:

1. Rage supplanted religious fervor.
2. All are supplanted sooner or later.
3. He was supplanted out of the house by his wife.
4. The gentleman does nothing, while the peasant works and supplants the idle man.
5. It would be very sorely strained if there was another woman likely to supplant her with him.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUPPLANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
supplant
 v.  replace; usurp; displace and substitute for another
Classic Sentence:
1  It would be very sorely strained if there was another woman likely to supplant her with him.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
2  But I thought you were a Catalan, and they told me the Catalans were not men to allow themselves to be supplanted by a rival.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
3  With the rapid instinct of selfishness, Caderousse readily perceived the solidity of this mode of reasoning; he gazed, doubtfully, wistfully, on Danglars, and then caution supplanted generosity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast.
4  Rage supplanted religious fervor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
5  All are supplanted sooner or later.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  He was successfully supplanted for a while, at the beginning of the present century, by Buonaparte; but as process of time rendered the latter personage stale and ineffective the older phrase resumed its early prominence.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
7  Pride and exultation were supplanted by humility, and the fiercest of human passions was already succeeded by the most profound and unequivocal demonstrations of grief.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
8  The gentleman does nothing, while the peasant works and supplants the idle man.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 17
9  At the same time the severity with which he had treated her lulled the sharpness of his regret for his mother, and awoke some of his old solicitude for his mother's supplanter.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
Example Sentence:
1  As the younger generation replaces the older, the new alliances supplant the existing political coalitions.
2  "No exit or entry screening will supplant the need for state and local health departments, for clinicians and for individuals to be aware and to think Ebola."
3  He was supplanted out of the house by his wife.