Sentence examples for were replacing from inspiring English sources
verb
To restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
- When you've finished using the telephone, please replace the handset.
So the tablets were replacing something that was missing.
"People here were replacing their Confederate flags with American flags.
Monday, F trains were replacing the C in Brooklyn.
Emergency glaziers were replacing smashed windows with boards at Santander and Lloyds TSB branches in Piccadilly.
More teams were replacing the middle guard with a mobile middle linebacker.
Nearby, she notes, malls "were replacing mountains, spawning satellite strips like lunar landing stations, almost overnight".
Pakistani immigrants and businesses that catered to them were replacing them.
The new phones cost 11%to15%5% more than the devices they were replacing.
But she said New Yorkers were replacing some of the lost business.
G trains were replacing the F between Hoyt and Schermerhorn Streets and Stillwell Avenue.
By the 1970's, recent immigrants were replacing the older population.
