Sample Sentences for
depose
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

depose as in:  plot to depose the Queen

•
In 1571, Elizabeth learned of the plot to depose her and restore Catholicism by replacing her with Mary.
depose = remove from office
Show 3 more with this contextual meaning
  • •
    Soon enough, when my new masters have awakened, I will depose Boreas and take the throne of the North Wind, but not just yet.  (source)
    depose = forcefully remove from rule
  • •
    First, we mean to depose the dictator in this and this way.  (source)
    depose = forcefully remove from office
  • •
    I swore to defend and protect his children, yet before his blood was cold, I plotted to depose and murder his son and seize the throne for myself.  (source)
    depose = force from office
▲ show less (of above)
Show 9 more with 2 word variations
  • •
    For what fault am I to be deposed?  (source)
    deposed = forced out of leadership
  • •
    Urgent fatline messages from Tau Ceti Center demanded that the ranking officer aboard the orbiting HS Denieve settle the situation on Qom-Riyadh, free all hostages, and depose the New Prophet...without resorting to the use of nuclear weapons within the planet's atmosphere.  (source)
    depose = forcefully remove from office
  • •
    Ever since Akela had been deposed, the Pack had been without a leader, hunting and fighting at their own pleasure.  (source)
    deposed = forced out of leadership
  • •
    At the conference that December, we in the Youth League knew we had the votes to depose Dr. Xuma.  (source)
    depose = force from office
  • •
    I was a fascist when Mussolini was on top, and I am an anti-fascist now that he has been deposed.  (source)
    deposed = forced from office
  • •
    Eventually, a faction of Tutsis deposed the king and took control.  (source)
  • •
    The gist of the story was that Bishop was a popular folk leader who had deposed an insane dictator, a UFO nutcase who had devoted part of the meagre national budget to chasing flying saucers.  (source)
    deposed = force from office
  • •
    The magistrate simply deposed my father, thus ending the Mandela family chieftainship.  (source)
    deposed = forced from office
  • •
    Thus, it was with great dismay that I learned in 1980 that the king, Sabata Dalindyebo, the paramount chief of the Thembu, had been deposed by my nephew, K. D. Matanzima, the prime minister of the Transkei.  (source)
▲ show less (of above)

depose as in:  depose the witness

Show 3 more with this contextual meaning
  • •
    I do not want any witnesses in the room while another witness is being deposed.  (source)
    deposed = question under oath
  • •
    Paul Dumas, physician, deposes that he was called to view the bodies about day-break.  (source)
    deposes = states under formal questioning
  • •
    Police Sergeant Croly deposed that when he arrived he found the deceased lying on the platform apparently dead.  (source)
    deposed = testified under oath
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 5 word variations
  • •
    As was customary, he was instructed not to speak to Robert Torrelson without an attorney present and even then only if he was being deposed and Robert Torrelson happened to be in the room.  (source)
    deposed = questioned under oath
  • •
    If the Party was seeking to reestablish political control over the fleet—no, to reassert what never had been lost—then the Politburo could not afford to depose the Party's representative in high command.†  (source)
  • •
    Did you see how upset Almaz is at the idea of someone deposing the Emperor?†  (source)
  • •
    But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a bonnet, and went out.  (source)
    deposes = states in answer to official questioning
  • •
    The first and most immediate is the deposal of Gabrielle Richter as Director.†  (source)
  • •
    The one Robert deposed was the second of that name.†  (source)
  • •
    How do you intend to depose the Director?†  (source)
  • •
    Still, he didn't have any plan for deposing her and didn't interfere with her power over the rest of us—especially over Mama, who remained as much a slavey as before.†  (source)
  • •
    The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Bene Gesserit Proctor who tested Paul's humanity when he was fifteen, deposes that he surmounted more agony in the test than any other human of record.†  (source)
  • •
    He got deposed and sided with the Persians to attack his own countrymen.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)

meaning too rare to warrant focus

Show 1 with this contextual meaning
•
One of the first things he intended to do after he deposed the chaplain was move back into the Group Headquarters building, where he could be right in the thick of things.  (source)
deposed = forced from office
▲ show less (of above)