Sentence examples for He supplanted from inspiring English sources

He supplanted Aaron as the first name on the list of baseball's all-time roster.

He supplanted the Basilica Sempronia (170 bce) on the western side of the Forum with his own Basilica Julia (54 bce), installing new shops in place of the old Tabernae Veteres ("Old Shops").

He supplanted Zach Brown in the lineup in the final four games of the season, and Brown was released this offseason to make way for the former Alabama captain.

He supplanted it with "thanks a thousand".

In so doing, he supplanted the old army and built a modern force.

Last week he supplanted the highly talented Guerrero as the Expos' leading hitter.

But during the 1998/9 season he supplants Hopkin in the side and is named Leeds' Player of the Season after plundering nine league goals.

Almost universally quoted at 6-4, he supplants Jack Nicklaus, who was 2-1 for the 1972 Muirfield Open, as the lowest priced favourite since golf and the bookies came together.

We are shown no dramatic meetings, no fraught conversations, between the architect and the Jews he supplants; we only see him taking a swim and wiping himself dry with one of the towels that are still hanging in the bathing-house "before it could occur to his wife to wash them".

At 62 years and 290 days, he supplants Seattle's Pete Carroll, who was 62 years and 140 days when he won last year's Super Bowl.

But Beijing can only feel deep unease about the growing strength of Boris Yeltsin, especially if he supplants Gorbachev as the Soviet Union's most powerful politician.