How to Use displacement in a Sentence

displacement

noun

• The war has caused the displacement of thousands of people.
• The risk of displacement has never been more real for longtime residents and business owners.
  — Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• Such massive earth displacement results in erosion, the destruction of habitats and damage to the wider ecosystem.
  — Amish Shah, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• The vacant lots, abandoned apartment buildings, and mass displacement paved the way for poverty, gang violence, turf wars, drugs and arson.
  — Briana A. Thomas, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
• As the country’s economy tanked amid a cutoff of international aid, the country faced mass hunger and displacement.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
• Farm to table Amid the death and mass displacement, farmers are experiencing other profound losses.
  — Anagha Subhash Nair, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2024
• Their family's separation since the war began mirrors countless stories of displacement in Ukraine.
  — CNN, 27 July 2022
• Whenever the subject of autonomous robots—from burger flipping bots to driverless taxis—comes up, concerns about job displacement inevitably follow.
  — Mike Dojc, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
• There are knock-on social risks related to displacement, discrimination, employee activism and human rights.
  — Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• Now the earthquake has caused a new wave of displacement.
  — Bassem Mroue, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• Both have promised to fight the displacement of low-income renters.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024