How to Use displace in a Sentence

displace

verb
  • The war has displaced thousands of people.
  • The closing of the factory has displaced many workers.
  • The hurricane displaced most of the town's residents.
  • Before the rules changed, younger sons would displace an elder daughter in the line of succession.
    Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
  • One bot can displace up to 30 times the work of one human full-time equivalent employee.
    Rhett Power, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The younger generation idolizes the elders, but also hungers to displace them.
    Jason Farago, Town & Country, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The easily-adjustable shoulder straps are comfortable and designed to displace weight from the top of your shoulders across your hips and core.
    Jenny Nguyen-Wheatley, Outside Online, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The house suffered mainly smoke and water damage, Reitz said, which will displace the family for some time.
    Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Unlike consumer goods, narratives—that no sacrifice is necessary, that the market can save us—can more easily displace each other.
    Charlie Hope-D’anieri, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Ian is on track to displace Ida as the nation’s second-costliest natural disaster to property insurers.
    Leslie Scism, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
  • From medical care to how to access water in each state to different shelters accepting those displaced, this list has been compiled and updated as more information becomes available.
    Quispe López, Them, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Leclerc, the Rangers’ displaced closer, pitched a 1-2-3 ninth in a one-run game.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 17 June 2023
  • More than half a dozen shelters were opened in the state to house those displaced.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Since the start of the war, more than a million Palestinians have been displaced to the south.
    Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Four people were displaced and no longer have a home, Sanchez said.
    Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
  • About 80% of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been displaced by the war.
    Julia Frankel The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The union is seeking to ensure that the adoption of AI will not displace jobs.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 11 May 2024
  • The blaze displaced a family who lived in the other half of the duplex.
    Fox News, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Around 6,000 people have died in the fighting, and more than a million have been displaced.
    Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
  • The world watched our people forcibly displaced and did nothing.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The couple is now displaced and living in their garage, which Reeves calls a cottage.
    Emma Tucker, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Many of the people who were displaced moved down, went closer to Egypt, into Rafah.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
  • In 2020, a fire broke out at a refugee camp in the town of Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos, displacing thousands.
    The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Over 60% of the internally displaced were forced onto the streets just last year, the agency said.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The United Nations says the war has displaced around 2 million people in Gaza.
    Aya Batrawy, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Tens of thousands of people have been killed, and millions more are displaced.
    Hannah Beech, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
  • As of Tuesday, 16 residents have been displaced, the city said.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 11 July 2023
  • At least 1,000 people have died in Africa, and millions of people have been displaced.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Fire officials say that more than a dozen residents were displaced due to the fire.
    Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2023
  • Almost a year later, too many on each side of the Israeli Lebanon border remain displaced.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 24 Sep. 2024

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