How to Use displacement in a Sentence

displacement

noun

• The war has caused the displacement of thousands of people.
• Now the earthquake has caused a new wave of displacement.
  — Bassem Mroue, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• The Archimedes screw is a form of positive-displacement pump.
  — Ben Finio, Scientific American, 11 July 2019
• The displacement increased support for the IRA’s cause.
  — Jessica Stern, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2023
• The high-revving mill will have a displacement of 4.0 liters and come equipped with a pair of turbochargers.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 20 May 2024
• The displacement caused by the war is almost as staggering as the death toll.
  — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 11 Sep. 2020
• The plan could also lead to the displacement of two homes and the removal of 17 businesses.
  — Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2022
• There are many issues that are at stake in this process [of displacement].
  — Christina Noriega, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• The group offered ideas to the city on how to prevent such displacement and felt the way Wright feels now: dismissed.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
• This displacement in the string then travels down its length.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2023
• The vertical displacement of the seafloor would cause a tsunami and push waves toward the coast of Japan.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024
• Tens of thousands have now been confined to squalid displacement camps for a decade.
  — Reuters, CNN, 22 July 2022
• And no, that truck doesn't roar with big-displacement V-8 thunder.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 July 2021
• The promise of new jobs doesn’t have to come at the cost of sudden cultural displacement.
  — Ro Khanna, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
• It’s got a large displacement Mercedes V 12 but the body is carbon fiber.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2024
• What are your thoughts on the importance of sharing these stories of displacement and the search for home?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
• In the displacement camps north of Goma, many families, worried about where to get the next meal.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2022
• Her displacement confronts us in the novel’s very first words.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• The knock-on effect has been a sharp increase in the displacement of Palestinian herders.
  — Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The power plant’s displacement ranged from 1.3 liters to 2.0 liters through the production run.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2024
• To do that, the two images are melded into one, which is fine for displacement.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2017
• The most notable change to this mix in recent years has been the displacement of coal by natural gas.
  — Mark K. Matthews, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2019
• The father thing, the men in the movement abandoning him and his mother, the displacement, moving from city to city.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2023
• But the largest effect on Israel thus far may be the long-term displacement of tens of thousands of Israelis.
  — Amos Harel, Foreign Affairs, 23 July 2024
• Since then, Rafah has seen one of the biggest mass displacements of Palestinians in Gaza since the war began.
  — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 24 May 2024
• That’s the highest level of displacement since the country’s civil war broke out nine years ago.
  — Adam Rasmi, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2020
• The fighting in Ukraine also sparked a crisis of displacement.
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022
• Tsunamis are extremely large waves that occur as a result of a sharp displacement in the ocean.
  — Caitlin Kaiser and Allison Chinchar, CNN, 20 Mar. 2022
• Her work focuses on diasporic existence and how displacement from home breeds connections and disconnections in the daily lives of immigrants.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
• Specific output means this engine produces more power per liter, more power per cubic centimeter of displacement than any Ferrari road car engine ever.
  — Mark Ewing, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024