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  • Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor.   (source)
    displaced = took the place of
  • For two millennia, Christian soldiers had defended their faith against those who tried to displace it.   (source)
    displace = take the place of
  • Riddle gave an irritable twitch, as though trying to displace an irksome fly.   (source)
    displace = force to move
  • Jack brought up the rear, displaced and brooding.   (source)
    displaced = pushed out of place (in this case, as leader)
  • Even in our highly permissive age, though, sex often doesn't appear in its own guise. It is displaced into other areas of experience in much the same way it is in our own lives and our own consciousnesses.   (source)
    displaced = replaced or represented
  • The face of Big Brother swam into his mind, displacing that of O'Brien.   (source)
    displacing = taking the place of
  • Any of the four elements may become displaced at any time: fire may break from the earth, earth liquefy and tumble about your ears, air beat against you like a rock, dashing the roof from over your head.†   (source)
  • Despite it all, it was mostly quiet, just the soft shuffle of feet on snow and the hushed muttering of the displaced.†   (source)
  • The horror movies were "sleights of hand in which the fears of the workingman have been displaced by those of pretty girls."†   (source)
  • And I realized that, sure, Indians were drunk and sad and displaced and crazy and mean, but, dang, we knew how to laugh.†   (source)
  • He says he's restoring houses without displacing longtime residents—as if the Victorian district was historically black, or even mixed.†   (source)
  • It was said that he had joined other samurai who had been displaced by the Meiji.†   (source)
  • The rocks they had to move to plant a field—they were, forever after, restless and displaced spirits.†   (source)
  • It's almost like I'm displacing my anger because I'm too afraid to bring up what's really bothering me.†   (source)
  • I found Abraham at a camp for displaced persons on the mainland.†   (source)
  • Both of them seemed to think about that, trying but finding it impossible to displace from their minds.†   (source)
  • Somehow, in the end, they declared her a Displaced Person, lost in a sea of immigration categories.†   (source)
  • The obvious suggestions have been made—displace, transmute, dissemble.†   (source)
  • It was the least barren room in the house, and she did her best not to displace anything.†   (source)
  • They decided that he should move into Margaret Kochamma's flat (displacing the Other waitress in the Other café) until he found himself a job.†   (source)
  • I can smell him, though, a mixture of wood smoke and something like baby powder, and after a few more minutes, I can feel his body displacing the air a few inches away from mine.†   (source)
  • There a United Nations relief organization assigned us to a displaced persons camp in Wetzlar, Germany, in the American occupation zone.†   (source)
  • They seem to have far more effect on the displaced Capitol rebels like my crew and Fulvia—even Plutarch occasionally reacts in surprise, maybe wondering how a specific tidbit passed him by.†   (source)
  • The impact sent shockwaves of displaced air reverberating throughout the room.†   (source)
  • New tracts of homes suddenly appeared on previously empty space or by displacing the barrios.†   (source)
  • Cold sunlight displaces the dark.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • That they were ashamed, and that they did not yet know that shame, for the displaced, was a common feeling, and that there was, therefore, no particular shame in being ashamed.†   (source)
  • The house is less tide than it was a week ago, the disinfectant smell displaced by something earthier.†   (source)
  • My mother put the picture in a frame, immediately, and parked it on the coffee table, displacing a series of glass teddy bears and a small basket of potpourri.†   (source)
  • A sense of sharing displaces the effects of selfishness and materialism, and a devotion to public duty leaves noroom for idleness.†   (source)
  • Well, because now I understand his reluctance not to displace you guys.†   (source)
  • The bailiff asked her to state her name, and over and over again she said it was Annie Wilkes, but she said no more; she sat there with her fibrous solid ominous body displacing air and said her name over and over again but no more than that.†   (source)
  • "So," my mom said when I was done with the story, "you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe."†   (source)
  • A cooling northerly breeze rolled over the foothills east of Atlanta, displacing the wet, stagnant air of summer.†   (source)
  • That was true: she was dismayed by the voracity with which objects kept invading living spaces, displacing the humans, forcing them back into the corners, until Fermina Daza pushed the objects out of sight.†   (source)
  • My organs are displaced until I feel wrong inside my own skin.†   (source)
  • Your brain has a part (the left hemisphere) that thinks in words, and a part (the right hemisphere) that thinks in pictures, and what happened when you described the face in words was that your actual visual memory was displaced.†   (source)
  • Starlight displaced just enough of the night to charge each shadow with menace.†   (source)
  • During the last twenty-five years table games, which are supervised by dealers and offer gamblers the best odds, have been displaced by slot machines.†   (source)
  • This world was very pleasant in so many novel ways, and it would be wonderful to be able to appreciate it without the distractions of an angry, displaced nonentity who should have had better sense than to linger unwanted this way.†   (source)
  • In a camp for displaced people, we asked to speak to a rape victim, and one was immediately brought over.†   (source)
  • I reached in with my hand, displacing a second wave of blood as I grabbed the small bowel.†   (source)
  • But then perhaps my faceless neighbor, afraid of being among the first displaced, simply wanted to get rid of me, to free my bed, to give himself a chance to survive ...Perhaps he only wanted to frighten me.†   (source)
  • She felt displaced air brush her cheek as it passed, and then Valentine had caught it out of the air, a long tongue of silver fire that flashed once in his hand as he brought it down.†   (source)
  • Yes, I was displacing my freak-out and channeling it into saving the cat, but the truth was that I couldn't think about what had just happened.†   (source)
  • A crowd is gathering, mostly made up of displaced Benzini Brothers roustabouts.†   (source)
  • I was intensely aware of where I sat, the volume of darkness I displaced, the shiny-smooth span of packed dirt between us, and the shocking separateness from me in my mama's eyes.†   (source)
  • But also sinfully complicit with some process she only half understood, the force in the world, the array of systems that displaces religious faith with paranoia.†   (source)
  • Since Momma told us that the less you say to whitefolks (or even powhitetrash) the better, Bailey and I would stand, solemn, quiet, in the displaced air.†   (source)
  • It makes me feel like an ugly, hopeless, mortally suffering displaced person who doesn't belong anywhere.†   (source)
  • For six months he lived in a Displaced Persons camp.†   (source)
  • I know your leader's name and the clans you've displaced.†   (source)
  • We are not conscious of daylight as that which displaces darkness.†   (source)
  • He can almost feel the diamond-shafts of green pushing upward, displacing the wet, trampled earth.†   (source)
  • Rage displaced her alarm.†   (source)
  • And the UN said they couldn't come to the aid of the Gultori families fleeing the fighting since they were internally displaced refugees who hadn't fled across international borders.†   (source)
  • Somewhere wheels were spinning, crushing stone and displacing it; he rolled over and over into the dark recesses of the low-hanging, wide-spreading branches of a pine tree, swinging his body around to locate the disturbance.†   (source)
  • Let's assame the Authority—or the Grand Assembly, as the Authority hasn't any warships of its own—let's suppose the nations of Earth decide to displace your, uh, 'government.'†   (source)
  • I've got guts, Jerry murmured, getting up by degrees, careful not to displace any of his bones or sinews.†   (source)
  • The beggars you saw in cities like Bujumbura were mainly displaced country people who had lost their pride.†   (source)
  • The shallow water churned beneath it, and when it beat its wings, we felt the displaced air against our faces and fell back, alarmed.†   (source)
  • The Red Cross is asking for blood donations for those injured on the ground, and for food and clothing for the displaced.†   (source)
  • And some of us, whether labeled "displaced,"†   (source)
  • Moreover, the change had made him more dangerous as a rival; in his current mood, she could quite easily imagine him attempting to displace her as leader of the Varden.†   (source)
  • But I always hear myself displacing the two languages, conflating them-maybe conflagrating them-for there's so much rubbing and friction, a fire always threatens to blow up between the tongues.†   (source)
  • It could be curiosity, she supposed; perhaps Margaery Tyrell wanted to get the measure of the rival she'd displaced.†   (source)
  • Displaced rock and dirt dribbled over the side and were instantly scattered in the swirl of wind.†   (source)
  • And when Helen quit school (after filing for permanent residency under the Displaced Persons Act), she was disarmed by Janis's efforts to stay in touch.†   (source)
  • For a split second, it displaced the look of all-round wear and, plainly, specific worry that had been on her face since she entered the bathroom.†   (source)
  • He shook his head violently, almost displacing his hat.†   (source)
  • The Senate must consent to displacing as well as appointing.†   (source)
  • Places had to be found for the displaced population.†   (source)
  • Her nightwear would get displaced and show her neck and shoulders, practically begging me to take a bite.†   (source)
  • Even if we have learned to be rightly and deeply fearful of elevating the cultural forms and conservatisms of any nation into normative and exclusivist systems, even if we have terrible proof that pride in an ethnic and religious heritage can quickly degrade into the fascistic, our vigilance on that score should not displace our love and trust in the good of the indigenous per se.†   (source)
  • She was the biggest submarine that Peter Holmes had ever seen; she displaced about six thousand tons and her atomic-powered turbines developed well over ten thousand horsepower.†   (source)
  • Several small items had been knocked from the table, a magazine rack pushed over, a cushion partly displaced from the sofa.†   (source)
  • But then she was in a displaced persons' camp for a long time.†   (source)
  • Every building still stood, no brick had been displaced, yet all was altered, especially the people.†   (source)
  • Suppose the Toomey brothers had settled on this land and somehow been displaced by the Wells outfit?†   (source)
  • The Displaced Person The peacock was following Mrs. Shortley up the road to the hill where she meant to stand.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Gruenwald abruptly walked away from Jinny Love, out of the bathrobe, and entered the lake with a vast displacing.†   (source)
  • The blue suitcase is beside it, topped with the displaced washbasin.†   (source)
  • In this picture you can see why my mother looks displaced.†   (source)
  • They were ecstatic to learn the three of us were in a displaced persons camp.†   (source)
  • The work had been done by affluent whites, but Adler insisted that blacks had not been displaced.†   (source)
  • The buzzer droned, broken off once — a finger momentarily displaced.†   (source)
  • When you pour the liquid in, the water is displaced over the lip.†   (source)
  • They call him a D.P., which means displaced person, an old insult I remember from high school.†   (source)
  • And which is anyway just a displaced version of the king-size Kent, normalized and concertized.†   (source)
  • The boxes this displaced fell on me like a small avalanche.†   (source)
  • All these are internally displaced cows.†   (source)
  • Overlaid with displaced Middle Western, California perhaps.†   (source)
  • That man there," and she pointed where the Displaced Person had disappeared, "he has to work!†   (source)
  • She knew something the Displaced Person was doing that would floor Mrs. McIntyre.†   (source)
  • She didn't sleep at night or when she did she dreamed about the Displaced Person.†   (source)
  • They're what is called Displaced Persons.†   (source)
  • She felt she must have this out with the priest before she fired the Displaced Person.†   (source)
  • Then the front door opened and out stepped the man, the Displaced Person.†   (source)
  • But I have noticed that you and your family seem less than happy of late ...What is it about my presence in your home that displaces you, Lucius?†   (source)
  • She looked through the ill-fitting drawers, at the mismatched spoons and knives, the colander and chipped, wooden spatulas, these would-be instruments of her new daily life, all of it reminding her of the havoc that had struck her life, making her feel uprooted, displaced, like an intruder on someone else's life.†   (source)
  • The Colossus's next step displaced several tons of salt water and made a crater large enough to swallow a pickup truck.†   (source)
  • Emerging on the other side, Andrey's surprise at seeing the Count's study for the first time was immediately displaced by the sight of Sofia.†   (source)
  • Behind us, a whirlpool was opening up, all the water displaced by the sub rushing back to fill the void as it sank.†   (source)
  • They were pale and displaced and complained of missing their dire-sounding TV shows, things with Vice and Cop and Jeopardy in their titles.†   (source)
  • In the meat department, whole lamb and goat have displaced beef as a favorite, and most fish is sold whole.†   (source)
  • Internally displaced persons.†   (source)
  • Your brain has a part (the left hemisphere) that thinks in words, and a part (the right hemisphere) that thinks in pictures, and what happened when you described the face in words was that your actual visual memory was displaced.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, every displaced person milling about on the streets means another pair of eyes looking for the five rebels on the loose.†   (source)
  • Instead, from beneath a displaced pattern of hangings, he saw two young boys—perhaps aged nine and ten—staring out at him with greedy eyes.†   (source)
  • Those who live in the choice apartments of the inner city have not flung open their doors to house the displaced.†   (source)
  • For Emile, however, the surprise at seeing the Count's study was displaced by the even greater surprise of finding the film star Anna Urbanova standing inside it.†   (source)
  • Subtle signs of a struggle greeted them here — a suspensor lamp displaced, a bedcushion on the floor, a soother-reel spilled open across a bedstand.†   (source)
  • THE ISLAMIST GOVERNMENT in Khartoum didn't make life easy for the displaced Christians who descended upon the capital looking for work, food, and housing.†   (source)
  • At last, in May 1949, after nearly three years in the displaced persons camp, we received word that our immigration request had been approved.†   (source)
  • She stayed there for three weeks, until they could process her papers and determine whether she was a War Bride, a Displaced Person, a Student, or the wife of a Chinese-American citizen.†   (source)
  • When he investigated, he found that the singles and nuclear families that had inhabited the town's apartment complexes were being displaced by families of refugees living eight or ten to an apartment—and producing a proportionate amount of garbage, which the town had to haul away.†   (source)
  • Paul caught himself in a stumble, sensing an arrested instant of time, remembering a fragment, a visual projection of prescience—but it was displaced, like a montage in motion.†   (source)
  • Paula Many of the refugees in Clarkston had been displaced by events far removed from their immediate lives—the decision of some despot hundreds of miles away to clear a region of a particular ethnic or political group in order to seize its resources, or the sudden appearance of soldiers in a village, fighting for a remote cause with no concern for collateral damage.†   (source)
  • There was a soft explosion—the sound of displaced air—and then nothing but a soft drizzle of salt, falling onto the pavement like solidified rain.†   (source)
  • Terran wheat displaces anything native.†   (source)
  • Now, though, instead of running endlessly in the same loop, from his day spent fishing to the argument with Missy to all that followed, they were displaced by his thoughts of Jonah, and Sarah Andrews.†   (source)
  • I had to sit on the counter, with the displaced toaster oven, just to get my Pop-Tart in the morning.†   (source)
  • A displaced person; as I was.†   (source)
  • The remembrance of her imminent departure wracks my old body with grief, but it's quickly displaced by joy—I am now close enough to hear the music thumping from the big top.†   (source)
  • They were displaced people, just like us, and they understood all too well these kinds of reunions, these moments when a piece of your old house comes floating by in the river.†   (source)
  • There were no more attacks upon Nasuada's person, but a month after winter broke and the roads were again clear, a displaced earl by the name of Hamlin, who had gathered up several hundred of the Empire's former soldiers, started launching raids against Gil'ead and attacking the travelers on the roads thereabouts.†   (source)
  • He could hear things mundanes couldn't, too, and these sounds filtered through the night and into his dreams—the rush of air displaced by a vampire's airborne motorcycle, the flutter of winged fey, the distant howl of wolves on nights when the moon was full.†   (source)
  • When I left New Orleans, I found myself, like thousands of displaced Gulf Coast residents, living on the generosity of others.†   (source)
  • For each we added a folksy message to natives, such as: "Target 115 west by 35 north—impact will be displaced forty-five kilometers northwest to exact top of New York Peak.†   (source)
  • They were trying to come to an agreement, of sorts, to make it better for everyone, and fairer for those who were being displaced from their homes and shops.†   (source)
  • Scratch an incompetent schoolteacher—or, for that matter, college professor—and half the time you find a displaced first-class automobile mechanic or a goddam stonemason.†   (source)
  • How could he give such an emotional object, whatever ambiguity throbbed in the ball's corked heart, to this aimless wayward aging kid, a displaced person in his own life?†   (source)
  • They seemed more concerned about making total mass equal to displaced wheat and same center of gravity and all moment arms adding up correctly than they did about our comfort; engineer in charge told me that even padding to be added inside our p-suits was figured in.†   (source)
  • Over it one day, Deo heard a Rwandan official declaring that displaced people should go to a town called Murambi.†   (source)
  • Far from the road we see men in white masks and floppy boots bulldozing the earth and when we come to a rise we are able to see the vast cratered plain of recent underground tests, depressions of various diameter but all seemingly well-figured—pale-rimmed holes formed when dirt displaced by the blasts slid back into the gouged earth.†   (source)
  • When he had left Bujumbura, a close friend from medical school named Claude had been living in an apartment with other displaced young men.†   (source)
  • A day or two later, a fleet of Toyota trucks drove by, men standing in the beds blowing whistles, shouting through bullhorns, saying that displaced people should go to the school in Murambi.†   (source)
  • Bujumbura had become a city of refugee cows, pastured in impromptu United Nations camps for the internally displaced, and also lowing on streetcorners, trudging along on sidewalks, herded into narrow vacant lots behind gas stations.†   (source)
  • But much was strange to me, especially the bicyclists with sheaves of fresh-cut grass heaped on their backs, processions of them bringing fodder for the herds of cows that milled around the tents and makeshift huts in the urban camps of the internally displaced.†   (source)
  • In Sweden right after the war was over and I was in this center for displaced persons I tried to kill myself there.†   (source)
  • I drifted off to sleep, but slept uneasily, indeed chaotically, once waking in the unfamiliar darkness to find myself very close to some droll phallic penetration—through folds, or a hem, or a damp wrinkle—of my displaced pillow.†   (source)
  • It was not long after this that we went to Warsaw—it was necessary that I find work ... "These long years after, in 1945, when the war was over and I was in this center for displaced persons in Sweden, I would think back to that time when my father and Kazik were murdered and think of all the tears I cried, and wonder why after all that had happened to me I couldn't cry no longer.†   (source)
  • They didn't know that she had had a great experience or ever been displaced in the world from all that belonged to her.†   (source)
  • The Displaced Person had expected them to work as hard as he worked himself, whereas Mr. Shortley recognized their limitations.†   (source)
  • She had found out what the Displaced Person was up to through the old man, Astor, and she had not told anybody but Mr. Shortley.†   (source)
  • She had never known a priest until she had gone to see this one on the business of getting her the Displaced Person.†   (source)
  • She says it's ten million more like them, Displaced Persons, she says that there priest can get her all she wants.†   (source)
  • She made up her mind now that on the first of the month, she would give the Displaced Person his thirty days' notice and she told Mr. Shortley so.†   (source)
  • He had said there was no legal obligation for her to keep the Displaced Person if he was not satisfactory, but then he had brought up the moral one.†   (source)
  • Of all the families she had had, the Shortleys were the best if she didn't count the Displaced Person.†   (source)
  • With the coming of these displaced people, she was obliged to give new thought to a good many things.†   (source)
  • Through the far end of the stall she could see down the road to where the Displaced Person was standing in the open barn door with the green hose in his hand.†   (source)
  • She stood slightly reared back with her arms folded under her smock and a satisfied expression on her face as she watched the Displaced Person turn off the hose and disappear inside the barn.†   (source)
  • Her look first grazed the tops of the displaced people s heads and then revolved downwards slowly, the way a buzzard glides and drops in the air until it alights on the carcass.†   (source)
  • She told him she was going to give thirty days' notice to the Displaced Person at the end of the month and that then he could have his job back in the dairy.†   (source)
  • "Displaced Persons," he said.†   (source)
  • The peacock stepped off toward the mulberry tree where the two Negroes were hiding and the priest turned his absorbed face away and got in the car and drove the displaced people down to the shack they were to occupy.†   (source)
  • Mrs. McIntyre had changed since the Displaced Person had been working for her and Mrs. Shortley had observed the change very closely: she had begun to act like somebody who was getting rich secretly and she didn't confide in Mrs. Shortley the way she used to.†   (source)
  • By nightfall, the Displaced Person would have worked his way around and around until there would be nothing on either side of the two hills but the stubble, and down in the center, risen like a little island, the graveyard where the Judge lay grinning under his desecrated monument.†   (source)
  • The old priest kept away as if he had been frightened by his last visit but finally, seeing that the Displaced Person had not been fired, he ventured to call again to take up giving Mrs. McIntyre instructions where he remembered leaving them off.†   (source)
  • Hrothgar's nephew was kind, for all that, to the cousins he half intended to displace.†   (source)
  • A pall fell over the table, displacing Erica's Sputnik funk.†   (source)
  • If the liberal arts do nothing else, they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.†   (source)
  • Another, opposing current of consciousness coursed through him now, one that did not displace the first but claimed space beside it.†   (source)
  • The Street of the Turks, enriched by well-lit stores with products from abroad, displacing the old bazaars with their bright colors, overflowed on Saturday nights with the crowds of adventurers who bumped into each other among gambling tables, shooting galleries, the alley where the future was guessed and dreams interpreted, and tables of fried food and drinks, and on Sunday mornings there were scattered on the ground bodies that were sometimes those of happy drunkards and more often those of onlookers felled by shots, fists, knives, and bottles during the brawls.†   (source)
  • In the afternoon, I was the one who ordered that they be housed temporarily in one of the barracks, displacing a handful of men for several nights.†   (source)
  • In the last second, before the gods reached the Parthenon, they seemed to displace themselves, like they'd jumped through hyperspace.†   (source)
  • How can a short term in office affect the independence of the Executive on the legislature, unless the one has the power of appointing or displacing the other?†   (source)
  • If we signal a guidance rocket three hours before impact, we displace impact three times as much as if we waited till one hour before impact.†   (source)
  • She thought of the prehistoric reptiles that came mutating out of the slime and the insects with chromosome damage poking from the desert near some test site, ants the size of bookmobiles—these were movies for the drive-ins of the fifties, a boy and girl yanking at each other's buckles and snaps while the bomb footage unfurls and the giant leeches and scorpions appear on the horizon, all radioactive and seeking revenge, and the fleeing crowds, of course, because in the end these creatures not only come from the bomb but displace it, and the armies mobilize and the crowds flee and the sirens wail like sirens.†   (source)
  • It had once seemed to me that nothing could ever displace the immortal liege of Amber from his throne.†   (source)
  • But it is possible that a displaced segment of bone is merely pressing upon the cord.†   (source)
  • Cloudy air displaced the giddy dark like a fixed despair.†   (source)
  • The new vice displaced the old and she became noisily virtuous.†   (source)
  • with that cunning, that inverted canker-growth of solitude which substitutes the omnivorous and unrational hearing-sense for all the others: so that instead of accomplishing the processional and measured milestones of the normal childhood's time I lurked, unapprehended as though, shod with the very damp and velvet silence of the womb, I displaced no air, gave off no betraying sound, from one closed forbidden door to the next and so acquired all I knew of that light and space in which people moved and breathed as I (that same child) might have gained conception of the sun from seeing it through a piece of smoky glass; fourteen, four years younger than Judith, four years later than Judith'†   (source)
  • It's about displaced persons.†   (source)
  • He could not; too many little signs were there, too many broken twigs and scuffed places and displaced stones.†   (source)
  • anywhere under the sun to come to the door and order the child away; and Father said that even then, even though he knew that Bon and Judith had never laid eyes on one another, he must have felt and heard the design—house, position, posterity and all—come down like it had been built out of smoke, making no sound, creating no rush of displaced air and not even leaving any debris.†   (source)
  • But the realities of his situation soon displaced conjecture on the other subject.†   (source)
  • So each of my cases displaces the last, and Mlle.†   (source)
  • The momentary vision of the bustling agency was displaced quickly by another picture.†   (source)
  • The displaced lids and open doors showed heaps of sullen grey ashes.†   (source)
  • "Humph!" ejaculated Hurstwood, who had been so sturdily displaced.†   (source)
  • At ten o'clock Wilson was displaced by Carling, class of '15.†   (source)
  • But Bathsh—Miss Everdene inflamed me, and displaced Fanny for a time.†   (source)
  • The relative position of the central federal power is continually displaced.†   (source)
  • You are my Pet's husband; you have displaced me, in the course of nature; if you wish it, good!'†   (source)
  • "What Idol has displaced you?" he rejoined.†   (source)
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