Example sentences for: supplanted

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

  • It was subsequently supplanted by mass retailers in the form of department stores in large urban cities and by mail-order houses focused on smaller communities and rural markets.

  • In Amsterdam, his palette darkened; marble floors replaced earthenware tiles, satin supplanted homespun, and a dream--it cannot have been more than that for de Hooch--of luxury reigned.

  • Money hasn't supplanted power but may have matched it.

  • Gangsta rap shifted hip-hop's center of gravity from the East Coast to the West Coast, and supplanted Public Enemy's machine-gun attack with a cooler, jazzier style.

  • "Clovis-first" theories (named for an archaeological site in New Mexico), which hold that humans appeared here about 12,000 years ago, have been supplanted by evidence of seaside communities in Chile and the Pacific Northwest 30,000 or more years ago.


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