How to Use usurper in a Sentence

usurper

noun

• The old alpha and the young usurper battling for the leadership.
  — Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 5 May 2021
• In one climactic scene, Jane is chased out of the palace by usurpers, and a rival army meets her at the drawbridge.
  — Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 27 June 2024
• But for all the debate and side-taking, Brady and his erstwhile usurper have not faced off in an NFL game.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022
• The English people viewed Anne as a scandalous usurper of the rightful queen’s place.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2022
• Meanwhile, on the stage itself, a troupe of three actors performed all the roles: the hero, his wife, his father, his friend, and the usurper of his throne.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• Using brain power does burn calories, and, in fact, the brain is among the body’s biggest usurpers of caloric energy.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• For the record, there was briefly a male usurper Cheetah in 2001 named Sebastian Ballestros.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Jan. 2021
• Any Democrat with power was seen as a usurper of power that should, by right, be Cuomo’s.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
• They were greeted as usurpers of jobs and, in the West, then still a lawless frontier, many were brutalized and massacred.
  — Ligaya Mishan David Chow, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• He is portrayed as an ill-mannered and boorish usurper.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The cauldron scene, played with the witches perched like birds on beams far over Macbeth’s head, is perhaps the highlight of the film, turning the floor beneath the usurper’s feet into a flood of horror.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 24 Sep. 2021
• But any struggle whatsoever from Georgia is welcome news to potential usurpers of the throne.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• Just down the road, a new usurper appeared from a previously struggling program with eight straight losing seasons.
  — Dennis Victory, al, 22 Oct. 2020
• Its melancholic hero, Juicy (Marcel Spears), isn’t especially haunted by the appearance of his father’s ghost telling him to kill his usurper.
  — Vulture, 12 Apr. 2023
• This recognition should include replacing the names of the country’s usurpers who killed the natives, robbed the nation, and supported every and any types of oppression, in public facilities and street names.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
• In the eyes of these veterans, Grace and the G40 faction represent a set of illegitimate usurpers who are conspiring to denigrate the role of the armed forces—in both Zimbabwe’s history and its future.
  — Philip Martin, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2017
• Lonely prince, obsessed with dead parent, watches remaining parent fall in love with dead parent’s usurper . .
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
• Knowing these flaws, each usurper chose to move directly to the far more environmentally friendly proof-of-stake model to operate these chains and perhaps siphon off current and future users.
  — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• In the poem, a usurper named Lugalanne—a military general who possibly led an uprising in Ur—drives Enheduanna from her place at the temple.
  — Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2022
• The backlash partly reflects Trump’s own repeated baseless claims that Biden is a usurper, depriving him of his claim to the presidency, and partly stems from Biden’s actions that Republicans deplore, from his spending plans to immigration policies.
  — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
• First emerging as Federer’s potential young usurper, Nadal subsequently became his greatest rival, and eventually the pair developed what seems to be a genuinely deep friendship.
  — Andrew Barker, Variety, 19 June 2024
• While McNamara grinds out victories, Harbaugh has been developing his successor — and perhaps his usurper.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2021
• Tyrants rule with absolute power cruelly, oppressively, and illegitimately (usurper).
  — Hazlitt, 10 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024