Displaced

Examples

• The swiftness with which the papers displaced the gruesome details of the little girl's death by exultation over the business future of the city was a caution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Someone may have shaken the box and displaced it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She began to arrange a locket-ribbon about my neck, she displaced and replaced the comb in my hair; while thus busied, Graham entered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mr. Shepard went on to state that the chemical meters were gradually displaced, and that on September 1, 1898, there were on the system 5619 mechanical and 4874 chemical. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The truth seems to be that a long line of disillusive centuries has permanently displaced the Hellenic idea of life, or whatever it may be called. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In all modern mills these have been entirely displaced by porcelain rolls revolving on horizontal axes and crushing the grain between them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• You are my Pet's husband; you have displaced me, in the course of nature; if you wish it, good! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The manufacturer, banker, and captain of industry have practically displaced a hereditary landed gentry as the immediate directors of social affairs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The chloroform being volatile and very heavy, settled in the box and displaced all the air. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The carbon transmitter displaced Bell's magnetic transmitter, and, under several forms of construction, remains the only commercial instrument. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Again I looked at the face; which was no longer turned from me--on the contrary, the bonnet was doffed, the bandage displaced, the head advanced. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The bandages were displaced or tampered with; great loss of blood followed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• True it is that at first labour was displaced. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Hence, when we view objects through the window, we see them slightly displaced in position, but otherwise unchanged. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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