| America had become an English-speaking colony, settled by emigrants from the Old Country who had largely supplanted its aboriginal population. |
| I read recently in this newspaper that kissing has now supplanted the handshake as the greeting of choice among male friends. |
| A multipolar racial pattern has largely supplanted the old racial system, which was often viewed as a bipolar white-black hierarchy. |
| These Romance languages supplanted earlier tribal ones which, except for Basque, have not survived. |
| It was these anatomically modern humans which joined or supplanted the Neanderthals in Europe some 40,000 years ago. |
| As the twentieth century wore on, railroads and mail-order catalogs supplanted the country stores. |
