Sentence examples for try and displace from inspiring English sources
In the meantime, a few tricks might help if the song trapped inside your head is really driving you crazy: "The most common methods are to try and displace it by doing something else or humming a different tune," he says.
In Syria the situation is even messier since the most powerful opponent of Isis is the Syrian army of President Bashar al-Assad whom the US and its allies are supposedly trying to weaken and displace.
Lastly, I think the yodel is also communicating something about the aggressive motivation or willingness to defend that territory, that is, how agitated they are and how willing they are to try to displace any type of intruder.
GH: A million years ago, I started a company to try to displace those door to door candy selling gambits, and instead have the kids sell classical CDs, etc. Lots of entrenched practices in the space.
His impulse will be to try to displace the blame by unleashing the demagogic furies against minorities and foreigners.
An article on Saturday about a population explosion among snow geese misidentified a type of bird that snow geese may try to displace when they arrive in the waters of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge in the wintertime.
This time, the tenants have a deep-pocketed partner, and they are hoping that the lenders who control the property will sell it to them, rather than to another heavily leveraged owner who might try to displace longtime residents in favor of higher-paying tenants.
Young males eventually move away to try to displace the guys in another group.
In extreme situations, a male may try to displace a smaller rival from a tree.
Instead of reinventing the wheel and trying to displace the credit card, these shops target turf the credit-card firms have largely ignored: "micropayments" or transactions of less than $10.
An appropriate response of the standard-sized males in this scenario was chasing and trying to displace the small male from the standard-sized female's proximity, i.e. to succeed in interference competition.
