How to Use displace in a Sentence

displace

verb
Definition of displacenext
Synonyms for displacenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 world watched our people forcibly displaced and did nothing.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Over 60% of the internally displaced were forced onto the streets just last year, the agency said.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The United Nations says the war has displaced around 2 million people in Gaza.
    — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
  • As of Tuesday, 16 residents have been displaced, the city said.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 11 July 2023
  • Fire officials say that more than a dozen residents were displaced due to the fire.
    — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2023
  • Roughly 3,000 students from the four Lahaina public schools have been displaced in the fires.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • City officials said the 64 residents displaced by the fire were safe.
    — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Popocatépetl’s explosions have displaced humans in the past.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
  • Eighty percent of Gazans have been displaced, many of them multiple times.
    — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The conflict, which first began in April, has left hundreds dead and millions displaced from their homes.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 28 May 2023
  • In the 2006 war, up to a million people were displaced, according to the United Nations.
    — Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The suggestion they might be displaced again is too painful to contemplate.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
  • And those who have not yet fled their homes are likely to be displaced as attacks continue.
    — Zach Levitt, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • UAnimals sent rescue crews to the city to help save and feed any animals displaced by the dam’s destruction.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • The Red Cross is assisting in sheltering those who have been displaced.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Their side-to-side movement rattles the earth but doesn’t displace huge quantities of water.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Only five days ago, the airport dipped to a frigid 7 degrees amid a siege of Arctic air which has since been displaced by a surge of warmth from the Gulf of Mexico.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The flames burned down homes, businesses, and displaced more than half of Lahaina’s residents.
    — Kara Nelson, CNN, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Thousands of Italians were displaced and 26 died, mostly in homes crushed by falling ash.
    — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Heavy fighting in and around the city of Khan Younis has displaced tens of thousands of people and cut most of Gaza off from aid deliveries.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Ongoing war in Myanmar has also led to the creation of several large mega camps for the displaced.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
  • For one, scrolling social media requires being awake, and hence, displaces sleep.
    — Maida Lynn Chen, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Some family members may be displaced and unaware of the need to provide samples.
    — Jenny Jarvie, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023

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