How to Use usurp in a Sentence

usurp

verb
Definition of usurpnext
Synonyms for usurpnext
  • Some people have accused city council members of trying to usurp the mayor's power.
  • Of all the gadgets smartphones usurped and sent to the grave, the alarm clock was among the first and most deserving.
    — Matt Jancer, Wired, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Will the girls resent the new children, feeling their place has been usurped?
    — Georgene Smith Goodin, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Now that the browser as tool has usurped the browser as being, what are we left with?
    — Suzannah Showler, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Yet their job is to try to guide the president to good policy, not usurp his role.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 12 Nov. 2019
  • She was accused nearly a year ago of trying to usurp power and prestige from the queen.
    — Kocha Olarn, Helen Regan and Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 3 Sep. 2020
  • To usurp the hostess’s chair would be a great show of disrespect for the hostess and an insult to the host.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The sequel explains the prince’s royal heritage while telling the back story of how the uncle usurped the throne.
    — Siddharth Vikram Philip, Bloomberg.com, 25 May 2017
  • The running mate’s role is to support and amplify the boss’s message, not to usurp it.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 July 2016
  • None of these can usurp the top position of that list from the devious aaloo methi.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz India, 26 Nov. 2019
  • This is the pizza oven to usurp all others—in style and functionality.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • But then, very quickly, that got usurped by the much bigger things going on in our industry with the strike.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Richard III usurped the throne after the death of his older brother.
    — Nancy Bilyeau, Town & Country, 13 Apr. 2017
  • The states bluntly say that the negotiation plan usurps a role that is properly theirs.
    — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2019
  • That Biden has been thwarted in his attempt to usurp the role of Congress is welcome.
    — The Editors, National Review, 28 Aug. 2021
  • First, recognize that the healthcare costs of being unhealthy can quickly usurp what you’d spend at the gym.
    — NBC News, 6 June 2018
  • The strongest is that the court has usurped a decision that a free and self-governing society would leave to the ballot box.
    — William McGurn, WSJ, 2 July 2018
  • Hariri said a law will be drafted to restore money that was usurped as a result of widespread corruption in the country.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Government exists to protect those rights, not usurp them.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
  • But Real Madrid could usurp both with a nine-figure bid for the Serbian.
    — SI.com, 10 June 2018
  • Nina vows to usurp the NFL with a rival football league.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • However, it can also be used to usurp turning off read receipts.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Maybe the Supreme Court is getting tired of lower courts that try to usurp its authority.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 May 2019
  • But Margaret was constantly paranoid that her son would be usurped.
    — HWD, 3 Apr. 2017
  • Erring on the side of caution has been usurped by individual freedom, even at the cost of children's lives.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2018
  • This needs to be understood as an attempt to usurp the judiciary and control the Court.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Those who oppose multiracial democracy will try again to usurp it, and those who support it should be ready.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The Supreme Court struck down those provisions, on grounds the state had tried to usurp federal power.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • And by this point, Butler had usurped Rose, the Bulls’ biggest and brightest.
    — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2018
  • The bond funds, which traditionally turned to banks for prices, are usurping the role as banks face pressure to reduce risk.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 21 June 2017

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