Sentence examples for were beginning to replace from inspiring English sources

Long, drunken yawns were beginning to replace her humming.

The Independent Labour Party had joined in, and political speeches were beginning to replace the religious sermons.

He said retail rents had dropped on major corridors, where national retailers were beginning to replace mom-and-pop businesses before credit markets froze up in September 2008.

Eating pizza was casual and rebellious, and pizzerias, the magazine suggested, were beginning to replace candy stores as hangouts for "pre-beer" teen-agers.

About fifty thousand years ago, they entered our own Milky Way galaxy, just as Homo sapiens were beginning to replace our Neanderthal cousins as the planet's dominant species of ape.

C.O.S.V.N. would lead the war against the Americans, who, even before the end of the First Indochina War, in 1954, were beginning to replace the French as the primary enemy.

I am beginning to replace her image with mine.

Cable and satellite systems are beginning to replace their set-top boxes with new devices using digital technology.

In fact, Paul saw Christians as beginning to be transformed even before the coming resurrection: the new person was beginning to replace the old (2 Corinthians 3 8; 4:16).

Even among hipsters, clothing decorated with the image of Africa is beginning to replace last season's Che Guevara T-shirts.

While compact fluorescents are beginning to replace standard light bulbs in many homes, lighting executives see those as an interim technology.