How to Use displace in a Sentence

displace

verb

• The war has displaced thousands of people.
• The closing of the factory has displaced many workers.
• The hurricane displaced most of the town's residents.
• Sanders also had to displace some of his players from campus and give them accommodations in a nearby hotel.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2022
• Its closure would displace more than 600 medically fragile people, many of whom are very poor and have nowhere else to go.
  — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2022
• To the extent rail freight could be made to displace trucks, that would greatly reduce the United States’s carbon footprint.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
• Thousands more are in captivity, displaced, orphaned, out of school, and suffer trauma from violence and war.
  — NBC News, 13 Oct. 2024
• In a scene out of biblical end-times, yellow jackets swarmed in the days after the storm — displaced after falling trees and floodwaters destroyed their nests.
  — Kim Dinan, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
• Their aim was not to restore but exploit, permanently displace and reimagine New Orleans as a gilded version of its former self.
  — Essence, 29 Aug. 2022
• These experiments add substantially to our understanding of the fitness of variants and how one virus can displace another.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
• In the outside zone scheme, the offensive line will look to displace the defensive line, both vertically and horizontally, to create running lanes for the running back.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2022
• Along Alaska’s shore, the main threats are a double-whammy of coastal flooding and winds up to 60 mph with higher gusts that could displace loose objects, damage buildings and bring down powerlines.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 16 Sep. 2022
• The war has destroyed large areas of Gaza and displaced around 90% of its population of 2.3 million people, often multiple times.
  — Samy Magdy and Bassem Mroue, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2024
• Leclerc, the Rangers’ displaced closer, pitched a 1-2-3 ninth in a one-run game.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 17 June 2023
• More than half a dozen shelters were opened in the state to house those displaced.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Since the start of the war, more than a million Palestinians have been displaced to the south.
  — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
• Four people were displaced and no longer have a home, Sanchez said.
  — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
• About 80% of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been displaced by the war.
  — Julia Frankel The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
• The union is seeking to ensure that the adoption of AI will not displace jobs.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 11 May 2024
• The blaze displaced a family who lived in the other half of the duplex.
  — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2023
• Around 6,000 people have died in the fighting, and more than a million have been displaced.
  — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
• The world watched our people forcibly displaced and did nothing.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• The couple is now displaced and living in their garage, which Reeves calls a cottage.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
• Many of the people who were displaced moved down, went closer to Egypt, into Rafah.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
• In 2020, a fire broke out at a refugee camp in the town of Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos, displacing thousands.
  — The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• Over 60% of the internally displaced were forced onto the streets just last year, the agency said.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
• The United Nations says the war has displaced around 2 million people in Gaza.
  — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
• Tens of thousands of people have been killed, and millions more are displaced.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
• As of Tuesday, 16 residents have been displaced, the city said.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 11 July 2023
• At least 1,000 people have died in Africa, and millions of people have been displaced.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024