How to Use displace in a Sentence

displace

verb
  • 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.
  • Some are still displaced from their homes.
    — Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Life in the camp for the displaced was scary and hard.
    — Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The fire displaced four adults.
    — Darius Johnson, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • All of these people have now been displaced.
    — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • Dozens of others were displaced due to fire.
    — Lillian Bonsignore, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Students on both teams had lost homes or were displaced by the fires.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2025
  • To move him now would displace somebody else who has earned that spot.
    — Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2022
  • We're kind of displaced at the moment.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Four people were displaced by the fire.
    — Josh Hernandez, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Seven adults and one child were displaced.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Some things will take longer for AI to displace.
    — Matt Shumer, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • More than half a dozen shelters were opened in the state to house those displaced.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Many of those who lost homes were renters, and some are displaced a year later.
    — Sarah Alegre, FOXNews.com, 12 Jan. 2026
  • In one of the homes, six people, three dogs and a cat were displaced by the fire.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • It was displaced in a 2019 storm.
    — Joe Holden, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • We were displaced in a house in Nuseirat.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
  • Can a place of love and sharing be displaced by loss and desire?
    — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2020
  • Both parents are now displaced.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • No one was hurt, but two residents and a dog are now displaced.
    — Jennifer Edwards Baker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Four people were displaced and no longer have a home, Sanchez said.
    — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
  • It can be used to enhance work, not displace workers.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • The cats, who usually slept on the bed with me, had been displaced.
    — Kate Folk, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
  • But we got displaced like 10 times or something.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
  • The world watched our people forcibly displaced and did nothing.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • He has been displaced multiple times across the strip.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Three people were displaced by the fire, police said.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Some others have been displaced, detained, or forced to flee abroad.
    — Mohammed R. Mhawish, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025

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