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Example sentences for "displacing"

Lexicographically close words:
displace; displaced; displacement; displacements; displaces; display; displayed; displaying; displays; displeasant
  1. This precaution is necessary because, while the acetylene is displacing the air in the pipes, they will for some time contain a mixture of air and acetylene in proportions which fall within the explosive limits of such a mixture.

  2. No one dreamed at this time of displacing the king or of taking the government out of his hands.

  3. In what measure women are displacing the men in a number of industries in the United States also, is indicated by the following item from the "Levest.

  4. But within the increasing number of female employes itself a change is going on: younger forces are displacing the older.

  5. One branch of industry after another, one branch of work after the other, is being taken by working-women, who are ever more displacing the men.

  6. Through the waist-deep slime the Tanks floundered, displacing tons of mud under the resistless pressure of the broad-flanged endless belts.

  7. The latter affirmed that San Domingo did not enter into the question of displacing Sumner now--implying that it might have been the bone of contention earlier.

  8. For a period they were the overlords of the Hebrews, who had been displacing the older inhabitants of the "Promised Land", and appear to have been armed with weapons of iron.

  9. Displacing thus the movable bodies in the cavity, the liver is quickly reached, and nodules, if they exist, are readily felt.

  10. Very great difficulty is experienced in diagnosticating an echinococcus tumor developing from the upper surface of the liver, pushing the diaphragm and lungs upward and displacing the heart to the left.

  11. Next, displacing their temporary predecessors, come the central incisors, between the sixth and eighth years, the inferior pair generally preceding the superior ones.

  12. The drop valve is now displacing the slide valve as a better form of excluding or admitting steam.

  13. Hence there is comparatively little power wasted in displacing the water.

  14. Unaware of this, they were slowly climbing when Trentham slipped, displacing a mass of loose earth which went rattling down the cliff.

  15. Hoole felt with his hand for a hard smooth spot upon the edge, over which the rope might pass without risk of displacing earth.

  16. Selectman/ is first heard of in 1685, displacing the English /alderman/.

  17. He avoids displacing terms of a disparaging or disagreeable significance with others less brutal, or thought to be less brutal, /e.

  18. Some mode of displacing an unfit magistrate is rendered indispensable by the fallibility of those who choose, as well as by the corruptibility of the man chosen.

  19. He added as another objection ag^{st} admitting the eligibility of members in any case that it would produce intrigues of ambitious men for displacing proper officers, in order to create vacancies for themselves.

  20. The function of the displacer cylinder is to take in a combustible charge of gas and air and transfer it to the power cylinder, displacing as it enters the exhaust gases of the previous explosion.

  21. By impenetrability is meant the property which bodies have of occupying a certain space, so that where one body is, another can not be, without displacing the former; for two bodies can not exist in the same place at the same time.

  22. Then you cannot ascertain the specific gravity of such substances, in the same manner as that of gold; for a body that is lighter than water, will float on its surface, without displacing any of it.

  23. Shuffle the cards without displacing those three, and show a person that the bottom card is the seven of hearts.

  24. Shuffle the cards again, without displacing the first and last card, and, shifting the other king of spades from the top to the bottom, show it to another person.

  25. Make the pass a second time, bring it to the top, and shuffle the cards without displacing those on the top.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "displacing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boot; discharge; dismissal; firing; gate; removal; retirement; sack; suspension; ticket