How to Use displace in a Sentence

displace

verb
  • The war has displaced thousands of people.
  • The closing of the factory has displaced many workers.
  • The hurricane displaced most of the town's residents.
  • Leclerc, the Rangers’ displaced closer, pitched a 1-2-3 ninth in a one-run game.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 17 June 2023
  • More than half a dozen shelters were opened in the state to house those displaced.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • White petals displace pressure from the pores of my skin.
    — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 15 July 2022
  • Since the start of the war, more than a million Palestinians have been displaced to the south.
    — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Students on both teams had lost homes or were displaced by the fires.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Four people were displaced and no longer have a home, Sanchez said.
    — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
  • About 80% of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been displaced by the war.
    — Julia Frankel The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The vibrations travel down the strings to the top of the guitar, called the soundboard, and then displace the air inside the body.
    — New York Times, 28 Nov. 2020
  • The union is seeking to ensure that the adoption of AI will not displace jobs.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 11 May 2024
  • The blaze displaced a family who lived in the other half of the duplex.
    — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2023
  • None of these high-rises will displace the city’s top two skyscrapers in terms of height.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Jan. 2021
  • To move him now would displace somebody else who has earned that spot.
    — Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Most are displaced from their homes, and many need shelter.
    — Julia Frankel, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Around 6,000 people have died in the fighting, and more than a million have been displaced.
    — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
  • Those displaced by the fires would get first priority for the new homes.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
  • The world watched our people forcibly displaced and did nothing.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The couple is now displaced and living in their garage, which Reeves calls a cottage.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Many of the people who were displaced moved down, went closer to Egypt, into Rafah.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
  • Such a strategy would displace the need for imports and reduce prices at the pump.
    — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
  • This might displace people who put up with the hazards of living near a landfill in the first place.
    — Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
  • The fastest is to displace the shame onto others via acts of violence.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2020
  • In 2020, a fire broke out at a refugee camp in the town of Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos, displacing thousands.
    — The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The fire was contained to one ground-floor apartment, but the 16 occupants of the building were displaced.
    — Ashley Fredde, Idaho Statesman, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Over 60% of the internally displaced were forced onto the streets just last year, the agency said.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Some of our employees have lost homes, many are displaced, but then there are other parts of the city that are OK.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The United Nations says the war has displaced around 2 million people in Gaza.
    — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Many Palestinians in Gaza were already displaced from their homes after the creation of Israel in 1948.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 20 June 2025

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