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How to use usurped in a sentence

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Although part of the agreement was the rehabilitation of settlers who had usurped tribal land, there is nowhere else for them to go.
Will they also have their paid-up and previously legal entitlements usurped?
Anything less is a concession that the rule of law can be usurped by mob rule.
The ruler belonged to Rai dynasty, a Shudra king, who was usurped by a Brahmin named Chach.
Has minimalism been usurped by upfront decoration and a rash of colourful swirls, florals and geometrics, or is less still more?
King Steven who usurped the English throne in 1096 carried the centaur as his heraldic symbol for that reason.
Move over Blocker, you've been usurped, dethroned and pretty-much dumped as Rugby League's loosest lip.
Not until Richard usurped the throne in 1483 did Henry's prospects brighten, his cause sustained largely by his redoubtable mother.
Tinseltown has usurped the kung fu genre, and even some Bollywood romances have a taste of the American romantic comedy.
It was during the late 1700s that the ancient female privilege of lying-in began to be usurped by a masculine, medical authority in the West.
While fundamentalists are surely bibliolaters, mainline Protestants by contrast have usurped Scripture's divinity.
Edward displayed shrewdness and ruthlessness in the way he turned on nobles who had usurped his power during his minority.
Male model du jour Derek Zoolander is suddenly usurped by boho newcomer Hansel.
They will make use of that allegiance and fight viciously to hold on to the power they have so nefariously usurped.
What could be a joyous occasion, as well as an important milestone in your life, is usurped by someone else's clinginess.
In the event the thing she most feared came about when Edward IV usurped the throne.
She usurped power from her husband and established her rule for almost two decades.
Schools have usurped the role of parents in terms of making decisions about their children.
Thyamis himself, rightful heir to his father's priesthood in Egypt. has had his place usurped by a younger brother.
Her powers have been usurped by the Chief Justice and reallocated to other people.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He found that the eminent of the Magi usurped the sovereignty after the death of Cambyses.
An anguishing desire for the safe and wholesome Present usurped all this mad yearning to obtain the Past.
Mr. coaks had usurped that office, and the quo warranto had been properly issued.
This was the rival whose place I had virtually, though not officially, usurped.
A short-waisted and single-breasted jacket usurped the place of the long-tailed coat, and became universal.
The mother's authority has been usurped by her male kindred, usually her brother.
The feudal state was one in which, it has been said, private law had usurped the place of public law.
On the spot which the thorns usurped, the reaper gathers only straw and chaff.
His functions were usurped by a military league and his sons removed from the army.
Turgeis himself is reported to have usurped the abbacy of Armagh.
She no longer felt that she had stolen the rose or usurped attention.
A confederacy had been substituted in the place of a government, and State sovereignty had usurped the constituent sovereignty of the people.
Come, come, do not strip the latter of his just rights to bestow them on the Corsican, who, to my mind, has usurped quite enough.
Let us not be in haste to overthrow the usurped powers of the world.
The usurped government of the decemvirs in Rome was of the same kind.
How often the fleshly mind has usurped His place in Thy worship!
Sophia unscrupulously usurped all the prerogatives and honors of royalty.
Confused homonyms have jostled with malapropisms to produce gems of misunderstanding such as 'Prospero's wicked brother usurped him and stole his birthmark.
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