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.
• 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
• White petals displace pressure from the pores of my skin.
  — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 15 July 2022
• 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
• Fire officials say that more than a dozen residents were displaced due to the fire.
  — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2023
• The significance of a safe home to those who are displaced is colossal.
  — Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Peoplemag, 11 May 2024
• Roughly 3,000 students from the four Lahaina public schools have been displaced in the fires.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2023
• City officials said the 64 residents displaced by the fire were safe.
  — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 21 Feb. 2024
• The agency is also footing a bill of around $2 million per month to house those displaced in the meantime, Hogshead said.
  — Lucille Sherman, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
• Popocatépetl’s explosions have displaced humans in the past.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
• Eighty percent of Gazans have been displaced, many of them multiple times.
  — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The conflict, which first began in April, has left hundreds dead and millions displaced from their homes.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 28 May 2023
• Over 3,500 people in Lebanon have been killed, and more than one million displaced, according to Lebanese officials.
  — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024