Sentence examples for they supplanted from inspiring English sources

Which is what the baby-boomer artists had said to those aging rockers that THEY supplanted a few years before.

They supplanted gigaku as official court entertainment, and gigaku disappeared as a performing art by the 12th century.

They supplanted Cliff Richard's Summer Holiday – No 1 for 14 weeks in early 1963 – and thereby lies a story.

The question is, Are we better off with these new authorities than we were with the traditional authorities they supplanted?

Now Nicholas Wright has written an equally enjoyable play, set in the 1630s, about the boy players they supplanted.

Before automobiles were mass-produced on assembly lines, Mr. London noted, they were more painstakingly constructed in small-scale "boutique" shops, like the coaches they supplanted.

Ms. Gilbert has her own burning enthusiasms, and they come through so clearly that they supplant the book's narrative.

True, Henry makes the connection between Martha and Mary Poppins as duplicitous mother figures who are still better parents than the birth mothers they supplant.

"When the actual buildings get designed, they supplant the drawings of what they might look like with what they will look like, and that's natural".

But separate from that, part of the reason that these gangs are able to take over communities is because they supplant the state," he says.

It is contingent on retaining performance that rival or exceeds the ad-hoc methods they supplant.