Sample Sentences for
displace
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    A ship displaces a weight of water equal to its own weight.
    displaces = forces to move
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    Riddle gave an irritable twitch, as though trying to displace an irksome fly.  (source)
    displace = force to move
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    She hoped the pain from ignoring them would displace the tear in her heart.  (source)
    displace = take the place of
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    For Tuck's head tilted to one side, his eyes went soft, and the gentlest smile in the world displaced the melancholy creases of his cheeks.  (source)
    displaced = took the place of
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    For two millennia, Christian soldiers had defended their faith against those who tried to displace it.  (source)
    displace = take the place of
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    One anger displacing another.  (source)
    displacing = taking the place of
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    We'd known not to expect much, and lest we forget, Father's Christmas-morning sermon was all about having grace in your heart, which displaces the lust for material things.†  (source)
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    Sometimes he says we have gone from being IDPs to EDPs—externally displaced persons.  (source)
    displaced = forced to move
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    Well, because now I understand his reluctance not to displace you guys.†  (source)
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    The face of Big Brother swam into his mind, displacing that of O'Brien.  (source)
    displacing = taking the place of
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    Cold sunlight displaces the dark.†  (source)
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    Jack brought up the rear, displaced and brooding.  (source)
    displaced = pushed out of place (in this case, as leader)
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    Both of them seemed to think about that, trying but finding it impossible to displace from their minds.†  (source)
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