How to Use displacement in a Sentence

displacement

noun
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  • The war has caused the displacement of thousands of people.
  • Now the earthquake has caused a new wave of displacement.
    — Bassem Mroue, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The Archimedes screw is a form of positive-displacement pump.
    — Ben Finio, Scientific American, 11 July 2019
  • The displacement increased support for the IRA’s cause.
    — Jessica Stern, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The displacement caused by the war is almost as staggering as the death toll.
    — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The plan could also lead to the displacement of two homes and the removal of 17 businesses.
    — Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2022
  • There are many issues that are at stake in this process [of displacement].
    — Christina Noriega, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The group offered ideas to the city on how to prevent such displacement and felt the way Wright feels now: dismissed.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
  • This displacement in the string then travels down its length.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Tens of thousands have now been confined to squalid displacement camps for a decade.
    — Reuters, CNN, 22 July 2022
  • And no, that truck doesn't roar with big-displacement V-8 thunder.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 July 2021
  • The promise of new jobs doesn’t have to come at the cost of sudden cultural displacement.
    — Ro Khanna, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
  • What are your thoughts on the importance of sharing these stories of displacement and the search for home?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
  • In the displacement camps north of Goma, many families, worried about where to get the next meal.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Her displacement confronts us in the novel’s very first words.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
  • The knock-on effect has been a sharp increase in the displacement of Palestinian herders.
    — Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • To do that, the two images are melded into one, which is fine for displacement.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The most notable change to this mix in recent years has been the displacement of coal by natural gas.
    — Mark K. Matthews, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The father thing, the men in the movement abandoning him and his mother, the displacement, moving from city to city.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2023
  • That’s the highest level of displacement since the country’s civil war broke out nine years ago.
    — Adam Rasmi, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The fighting in Ukraine also sparked a crisis of displacement.
    — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Tsunamis are extremely large waves that occur as a result of a sharp displacement in the ocean.
    — Caitlin Kaiser and Allison Chinchar, CNN, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The optional four-cylinder engine is the same displacement, but with VTEC and 150 hp.
    — Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 13 July 2023
  • Gas plants that supply power throughout the day face the biggest risk of displacement.
    — WSJ, 16 May 2021
  • But the mass displacement has put such strain on resources in the south that Hammash said some people were now heading back home.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The city also has safeguards in place for current renters to help with displacement pressures faced by renters.
    — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
  • And many were abused even beyond the displacement from their families.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 July 2022
  • This is a bigger issue, and conflicts around the world leading to displacement of people and refugees.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 24 Oct. 2018
  • The Web also held constant through a series of displacements.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The ongoing civil war has led to mass displacement and flight.
    — Kalley Huang, Dallas News, 26 July 2021

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