How to Use usurp in a Sentence

usurp

verb

• Some people have accused city council members of trying to usurp the mayor's power.
• Of all the gadgets smartphones usurped and sent to the grave, the alarm clock was among the first and most deserving.
  — Matt Jancer, Wired, 5 Feb. 2020
• And by this point, Butler had usurped Rose, the Bulls’ biggest and brightest.
  — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2018
• Will the girls resent the new children, feeling their place has been usurped?
  — Georgene Smith Goodin, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• But Real Madrid could usurp both with a nine-figure bid for the Serbian.
  — SI.com, 10 June 2018
• Or will Kylian Mbappé, who already won the World Cup in 2018 and has scored a hat trick in the final, usurp his crown?
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024
• Richard III usurped the throne after the death of his older brother.
  — Nancy Bilyeau, Town & Country, 13 Apr. 2017
• To usurp the hostess’s chair would be a great show of disrespect for the hostess and an insult to the host.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• The sequel explains the prince’s royal heritage while telling the back story of how the uncle usurped the throne.
  — Siddharth Vikram Philip, Bloomberg.com, 25 May 2017
• Now that the browser as tool has usurped the browser as being, what are we left with?
  — Suzannah Showler, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• The running mate’s role is to support and amplify the boss’s message, not to usurp it.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 July 2016
• Yet their job is to try to guide the president to good policy, not usurp his role.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 12 Nov. 2019
• Aegon usurped the throne all sneaky like from Rhaenyra and her husband, Daemon.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
• And, after months when covid-19 wholly usurped the agenda, Brexit is back to the fore.
  — The Economist, 28 May 2020
• By the mid-2000s, the Angels had usurped Victoria’s role in the brand’s mythology.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 22 Aug. 2024
• The man Johnson usurped at the head of the game, Justin Thomas, was the third member of the trio and stayed patient to card a level-par 70 to remain four over.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 15 June 2018
• Nina vows to usurp the NFL with a rival football league.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• James may never usurp Michael Jordan in the greatest-of-all-time debate.
  — Marc Stein, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
• She was accused nearly a year ago of trying to usurp power and prestige from the queen.
  — Kocha Olarn, Helen Regan and Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 3 Sep. 2020
• Years ago, a new baby brother would have usurped Charlotte's place in the line of succession to the throne, but that's no longer the case.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2017
• The Lions are four wins away from their fourth straight state championship, and the Eagles are trying to usurp them.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• That Biden has been thwarted in his attempt to usurp the role of Congress is welcome.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 Aug. 2021
• The Supreme Court struck down those provisions, on grounds the state had tried to usurp federal power.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
• Imus engaged in a long-running feud with shock jock Howard Stern, who usurped Imus' position as the No.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2019
• But then, very quickly, that got usurped by the much bigger things going on in our industry with the strike.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
• Austin Allen’s time to shine No more worrying about whether Cole Kelley will usurp him.
  — Eric Bolin, ajc, 15 Nov. 2017
• The same holds true today as these same state actors, once again, are trying to usurp the U.S. election process.
  — Donald J. Mihalek, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2022
• To usurp those rules, the politicians teamed up with developers to create a clever con.
  — Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2024
• The beloved local chain of dive bars has been usurped in recent years by Gen Z, looking for cheap well drinks and a staff that won’t call the cops if seven people are vaping under a table.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
• Banks were usurped in their core function of deposit gathering and transaction accounts.
  — Gene A. Grant Ii, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024