How to Use supplant in a Sentence

supplant

verb

• Language evolves, and new terms come along to supplant the old.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
• The Colts are a bottom-half team this week and, in one case, supplant the Jaguars at the bottom of the league.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Sep. 2020
• To be clear, Arm is not going to supplant x86 in the server space.
  — Matt Kimball, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• And the very abundance of options works against any one of them supplanting X in the near term.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• But Fiers’ return this week did not supplant Irvin, at least right away.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2021
• Bonds had felt some angst about supplanting Mays on the all-time list, but Willie told him at the time not to worry about it.
  — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 19 June 2024
• Since when have the stony-hearted supplanted the starry-eyed?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
• As the two frontrunners plod along, there's been a lot of action trying to supplant them.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• Bliss said the intent for his videos was never to supplant a lecture or even be used in a classroom.
  — Sherry Liang, CNN, 30 Dec. 2021
• The longer the war lasts, the more Putin will look for opportunities to undermine and supplant the West.
  — Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2023
• How does McLaren catch up to Red Bull and supplant them as champions next season?
  — Michael Loré, Robb Report, 31 Oct. 2023
• Threads’ explosive launch seemed to set it up to supplant Twitter’s reign.
  — WIRED, 5 Aug. 2023
• Vaccines have sometimes been billed as an option to supplant the nuisance of masks.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 22 July 2021
• In theory, all eight of the people on stage shared a common goal of supplanting Trump.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• In recent years, many have seen their work scooped into AI models, which can be used to supplant their jobs.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 Sep. 2024
• The musical is unlikely to supplant anyone’s love for the film.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2022
• At the time, no one knew how long restaurants would be forced to supplant their revenue with to-go orders and outdoor dining.
  — Mark Remillard, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2021
• Skura was unable to supplant Michael Deiter for the first-team center spot.
  — David Furones, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• The decisions of the central bank are meant to support, not to supplant, the real economy.
  — Judy Shelton, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
• The project will supplant the 11-year-old Michigan Left turn that many drivers found confusing.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• The Harvest Nation founders want to generate green economic growth and better health on the range, to supplant some of what must be trucked in most of the year.
  — Star Tribune, 24 Jan. 2021
• The billionaire seems to want Twitter to supplant cable news as CNN struggles.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 9 June 2023
• If passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor, the measure would supplant Newsom’s plan.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• Instead, Georgia could be able to draw away enough votes to supplant the Tide atop the poll just two games into the regular season.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2022
• If questions linger about Rocker, is there a college pitcher who might supplant him on draft lists?
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2021
• There is next to no chance Thompson will supplant Holiday from the rotation.
  — Rahat Huq, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2023
• Castleton hasn't played often in Big Ten games since Austin Davis supplanted him as the backup center.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2020
• Hurd said that Chinese communists want to supplant the U.S. as the world's only super power.
  — Jeremy Wallace, ExpressNews.com, 8 Dec. 2020
• After Viserys’s death, at the end of Episode 8, Rhaenyra is driven to defend her claim to the throne while Alicent, with the help of her father, attempts to supplant her.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• But it is based in an acknowledgment of difference—that Black-as-race has supplanted, in everyday language, Blackness-as-ethnicity.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024