| America had become an English-speaking colony, settled by emigrants from the Old Country who had largely supplanted its aboriginal population. |
| As with military strategy, rightness or wrongness is supplanted by possibility. |
| Alternative Armageddons supplanted the mushroom cloud and the nuclear winter. |
| The traditional cheese and Marmite rusks have been well and truly supplanted. |
| The five-course guitar supplanted the aristocratic vihuela in the 17th century and came to be regarded as the typical Spanish instrument. |
| He spoke musingly, his anger supplanted for the moment by unfeigned pleasure. |
