Sentence examples for replaces something from inspiring English sources
"Every new low-end phone replaces something with less sophistication".
It replaces something you knew with something that Apple considers better — with little regard to the time it will take you to learn where everything went.
Extra fish replaces something else in the diet, which may be less good for you, she said.
"We have been debating for two years whether this is an add-on, or whether it replaces something else," he said.
Macbeth himself has a massive amount more to sing in the 'first' Act 3. Lady M's 'La Luce langue' replaces something quite different in mood, as does the ending to the Act I duet between the Macbeths.
Like the iPhone let us swap our cellphone for something far better, and the iPod put paid to our clunky old music player, so the Kindle neatly replaces something we already carry around: the printed page.
"It's that they want to replace something with nothing".
Why even think about replacing something that works so well?
So the tablets were replacing something that was missing.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon found that only New Yorkers replaced "something" with "suttin" on Twitter.
In both types of synecdoche, something has replaced something else, a substitution has taken place.
