How to Use displacement in a Sentence

displacement

noun
  • The war has caused the displacement of thousands of people.
  • This was not the first displacement for many.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
  • People are fed a lot of news about displacement and refugees.
    — Sara Merican, Deadline, 1 Feb. 2025
  • This displacement in the string then travels down its length.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Both have promised to fight the displacement of low-income renters.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • There are many issues that are at stake in this process [of displacement].
    — Christina Noriega, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Tens of thousands have now been confined to squalid displacement camps for a decade.
    — Reuters, CNN, 22 July 2022
  • The absence of noise left Juszczyk with an eerie sense of displacement.
    — Michael Silver, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • After more than two years of war, life in Gaza is still shaped by loss and displacement.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Then, once the last shot was fired, the real displacement began.
    — The Los Angeles Times, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • Her displacement confronts us in the novel’s very first words.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
  • Job displacement is an issue, too.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The displacement caused by the war is almost as staggering as the death toll.
    — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 11 Sep. 2020
  • But for many of today’s refugees, displacement often lasts decades.
    — Ilana Seff, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
  • More than two years of civil war have led to famine conditions and mass displacement.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 18 Dec. 2025
  • To do that, the two images are melded into one, which is fine for displacement.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The stress of displacement can slow the healing process and strain an entire household.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2026
  • And no, that truck doesn't roar with big-displacement V-8 thunder.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 July 2021
  • The closer the object is, the bigger its displacement will be.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
  • The rainy season looms, bringing with it the threat of flooding, cholera, and more displacement.
    — Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The Archimedes screw is a form of positive-displacement pump.
    — Ben Finio, Scientific American, 11 July 2019
  • Many Lebanese civilians fear the moves could lead to prolonged displacement.
    — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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 promise of new jobs doesn’t have to come at the cost of sudden cultural displacement.
    — Ro Khanna, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Those two had been through war and displacement, and had made a new life together in its aftermath.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • For him, the most painful part of displacement wasn’t being forced from his home, but not knowing what had happened to it.
    — Fatima Abdulkarim Afif Amireh, New York Times, 8 May 2025
  • 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
  • The former are the fleet's largest, with a displacement of 6,500 tons.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Still, fears of displacement aren’t without basis.
    — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 19 May 2026

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