Sentence examples similar to supplant someone from inspiring English sources

The articles were accompanied by pictures of victims rather than of the politicians who had treated them so badly: their tragedies were not supplanted by someone else's drama.

Imagine having once been atop Hype Mountain, only to find yourself supplanted by someone even younger and having to compete in their shadows.

It's a bummer, particularly for those who might've built a small business around the API and will have to hire someone to supplant a new solution.

But nationally, Pisapia doesn't see someone poised to supplant Berlusconi.

In India, the world's fastest-growing market for cellphones, calling the village or sending a text message has all but supplanted the practice of dictating intimacies to someone else.

It did so only after someone could be appointed prime minister and supplant Mr. Arafat as the Palestinian representative in the negotiations.

When you are caring for someone you love, your wants and needs are supplanted by theirs, because what you want, more than anything, is for them to be well.

Rage often seemed to supplant, or at least obscure, whatever other emotions one might expect from someone who routinely bore witness to misery and atrocity.

So, if someone says that J Street should die and be supplanted by Jewish Voice for Peace, what they're saying implicitly is that they don't care about trying to do anything about Congress in any future that we can see.

Although the Red Sox say all they want to do is get to the playoffs -- where they would have a chance to knock off the Yankees or advance to the World Series while someone else knocked off the Yankees -- ideally they would like to supplant the Yankees in first place and let the Yankees scramble for the wild card.

That would mean somebody supplanting Jones.