Sentence examples for be supplanted from inspiring English sources
verb
To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
- Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?
The personal computer may even be supplanted in most homes.
All of them will be supplanted by far fewer contracts based on the euro.
Technology, however sophisticated, may be supplanted by better methods with the passing of time.
But networks can also be supplanted as users suddenly switch to an even better competitor.
Some time in the next decade, though, DVD's will probably be supplanted by high-definition DVD's.
He suspects that the name Freedom Tower will be supplanted in time by World Trade Center.
Evidently, nudes will be supplanted by semi-naked women in provocative poses.
Names like breast cancer and lung cancer will be supplanted by terms like B-RAF-positive or EGFR-positive tumors.
In centrally planned economies, the price mechanism may be supplanted by centralized governmental control for political and social reasons.
Don is a leading man in swashbuckling silent movies, which are about to be supplanted by talkies.
Numbers and facts will be supplanted by appeals to emotion to make employees and customers do what they are told.
