Sentence examples for are displacing from inspiring English sources
verb
To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
Many are displacing Arabs, increasing ethnic tension.
Day after day, they are displacing our people.
ODesk and similar sites are displacing staffing agencies.
"In neighborhoods, the Sunni are displacing the Shia or the Shia are displacing the Sunnis," said Ahmed with disgust.
One tenant, Jackie Coleman, told the public inquiry: "You are displacing a whole community.
Data from that month show that wind turbines are displacing carbon emissions from conventional power plants.
The worst part is that we are displacing people who live here".
With every stroke they take, the boys are displacing more than water.
"We have to constantly look for the new people that are displacing us and offer them a leg up.
"They are displacing farmers, up-rooting communities and food production and destroying ecosystems on a massive scale.
Now it is neuroscientists who are displacing the philosophers and theologians and telling us how we must behave.
