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
  • And by this point, Butler had usurped Rose, the Bulls’ biggest and brightest.
    — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2018
  • Will the girls resent the new children, feeling their place has been usurped?
    — Georgene Smith Goodin, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • But Real Madrid could usurp both with a nine-figure bid for the Serbian.
    — SI.com, 10 June 2018
  • Or will Kylian Mbappé, who already won the World Cup in 2018 and has scored a hat trick in the final, usurp his crown?
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Richard III usurped the throne after the death of his older brother.
    — Nancy Bilyeau, Town & Country, 13 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • Now that the browser as tool has usurped the browser as being, what are we left with?
    — Suzannah Showler, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Aegon usurped the throne all sneaky like from Rhaenyra and her husband, Daemon.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • And, after months when covid-19 wholly usurped the agenda, Brexit is back to the fore.
    — The Economist, 28 May 2020
  • By the mid-2000s, the Angels had usurped Victoria’s role in the brand’s mythology.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 22 Aug. 2024
  • The man Johnson usurped at the head of the game, Justin Thomas, was the third member of the trio and stayed patient to card a level-par 70 to remain four over.
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 15 June 2018
  • Nina vows to usurp the NFL with a rival football league.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • James may never usurp Michael Jordan in the greatest-of-all-time debate.
    — Marc Stein, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Years ago, a new baby brother would have usurped Charlotte's place in the line of succession to the throne, but that's no longer the case.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2017
  • The Lions are four wins away from their fourth straight state championship, and the Eagles are trying to usurp them.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • That Biden has been thwarted in his attempt to usurp the role of Congress is welcome.
    — The Editors, National Review, 28 Aug. 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
  • Imus engaged in a long-running feud with shock jock Howard Stern, who usurped Imus' position as the No.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Austin Allen’s time to shine No more worrying about whether Cole Kelley will usurp him.
    — Eric Bolin, ajc, 15 Nov. 2017
  • The same holds true today as these same state actors, once again, are trying to usurp the U.S. election process.
    — Donald J. Mihalek, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2022
  • To usurp those rules, the politicians teamed up with developers to create a clever con.
    — Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • Maybe the Supreme Court is getting tired of lower courts that try to usurp its authority.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 May 2019
  • As a meme, Smokey Bear has usurped the place for any other American cultural values associated with fire.
    — Christopher Roos, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024

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