Supplanting Synonyms

Supplanting Sentence Examples

• During his patron's absence, Biren, a handsome, insinuating fellow, succeeded in supplanting him in the favour of Anne, and procuring the disgrace and banishment of Bestuzhev and his family.

• They also pushed their fortunes by fighting for, or murdering and supplanting, the native African princes.

• The gradual supplanting of sail by steamships has made Malta a coaling station of primary importance.

• The decline of commerce, however, had already begun, manufacturing supplanting it in importance; and this decline was rapid by 1850.

• Wilfrid's is a memorable name in English history, not only because of the large part he played in supplanting the Celtic discipline and in establishing a precedent of appeal to papal authority, but also by reason of his services to architecture and learning.