Example sentences for: supplant

How can you use “supplant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • UFC's promoters predicted that it would supplant boxing as America's martial art.

  • In recent testimony before the Congress, GAO urged that the proposal for establishing DHS should not be considered a substitute for, nor should it supplant, the timely issuance of a national homeland security strategy.

  • Analysts agree Abiola is the only man who could have claimed a popular mandate to supplant Nigeria's military rulers.

  • An article introduces the father of compassionate conservatism, Jewish-Communist-turned-evangelical-Christian Marvin Olasky, who penned a book arguing that faith-based charities could supplant the welfare state.

  • Military confrontation with Iraq would instantly supplant the Lewinsky story and would convert Clinton's image from lecher to leader.


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