supplanting

How To Use supplanting In A Sentence

• RHP Brandon Lyon parlayed his surprising spring performance into the opening day closer job, supplanting RHP Greg Aquino.
• It is entirely to be ascribed to the supplanting, _in the national subsistence, of a large part of home produce by an equally large part of foreign produce_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
• This inimitable project aside, the search for visual rather than textual material has been dominant in Courbet studies, supplanting the logocentric premise of iconography.
• PDAs are supplanting the conventional mobile data collection and display devices found in inventory applications ranging from shipping through picking and receiving, raw materials and finished goods, toolrooms and stockrooms.
• Large steamships were supplanting smaller sailing vessels as the main carriers of slaves.
• For many years the old tactical unit called the maniple had proven too small to contend with the massive, undisciplined armies the legions often had to fight; the cohort — three times the size of the maniple — had been gradually supplanting it in actual practice. The First Man in Rome
• The pad began to curvet as the post horses rattled behind, and the Parson had only an indistinct vision of a human face supplanting these human legs. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
• Small-scale, short-run production processes depending on multi-skilled labour were now supposedly supplanting the era of mass production, driven by new structures of diversified consumer demand and volatile economic conditions.
• Artists borrowed another kind of luster, too, gradually supplanting their social betters as gleaming examples of how to act, how to look and how to feel. Intensely Familiar, Yet Strangely Remote
• Reality is no longer the trusted referent of ‘news’ programs, as visual re-creation and graphic manipulation join analysis and conjecture in supplanting documentation and reportage.