How to Use usurper in a Sentence

usurper

noun
  • Said veteran is back on top, though its former usurper is hot on its heels.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
  • In the case of Putin, there is no shortage of possible usurpers.
    — Sergey Radchenko, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Suddenly, though, the usurpers are proving to be the real deal.
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 20 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, the ewe who gave birth to her won't go away or stop pestering these human usurpers.
    — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the ewe who gave birth to her won’t go away or stop pestering these human usurpers.
    — Dennis Perkins and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 5 July 2024
  • The old alpha and the young usurper battling for the leadership.
    — Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 5 May 2021
  • In one climactic scene, Jane is chased out of the palace by usurpers, and a rival army meets her at the drawbridge.
    — Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 27 June 2024
  • Once the queen was removed, the usurper returned, laid eggs and assumed control of the workers.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
  • No President would allow a usurper to command our armed forces.
    — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Using brain power does burn calories, and, in fact, the brain is among the body’s biggest usurpers of caloric energy.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • And yet, the latter seems forlorn and shabby on the charger next to the matte darkness of this inky usurper.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Any Democrat with power was seen as a usurper of power that should, by right, be Cuomo’s.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Coup d’états, in which the usurpers are almost always men, don’t often get a reading by feminist scholars.
    — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The English people viewed Anne as a scandalous usurper of the rightful queen’s place.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2022
  • They were greeted as usurpers of jobs and, in the West, then still a lawless frontier, many were brutalized and massacred.
    — Ligaya Mishan David Chow, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Maduro was a usurper who stole an election, held power by force, and abused that power to ruin the lives of Venezuelans and many others.
    — Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Just down the road, a new usurper appeared from a previously struggling program with eight straight losing seasons.
    — Dennis Victory, al, 22 Oct. 2020
  • But any struggle whatsoever from Georgia is welcome news to potential usurpers of the throne.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • But for all the debate and side-taking, Brady and his erstwhile usurper have not faced off in an NFL game.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022
  • While clearly there’s the fear of human replacement and job loss, Cardenas sees humanoid robots as helper, not usurpers.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • For the record, there was briefly a male usurper Cheetah in 2001 named Sebastian Ballestros.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Ultimately, her goal seemed to be to transform Daemon from a potential usurper into a loyal servant to his wife, Rhaenyra.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The cauldron scene, played with the witches perched like birds on beams far over Macbeth’s head, is perhaps the highlight of the film, turning the floor beneath the usurper’s feet into a flood of horror.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The Citizens travel to Molineux in the late kick-off hoping to avoid any early snags in their efforts to reclaim the crown from usurper Liverpool.
    — Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Its melancholic hero, Juicy (Marcel Spears), isn’t especially haunted by the appearance of his father’s ghost telling him to kill his usurper.
    — Vulture, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Knowing these flaws, each usurper chose to move directly to the far more environmentally friendly proof-of-stake model to operate these chains and perhaps siphon off current and future users.
    — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • But critics say the bodies have become unelected, unaccountable usurpers of presidential and judicial power.
    — Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2026
  • This recognition should include replacing the names of the country’s usurpers who killed the natives, robbed the nation, and supported every and any types of oppression, in public facilities and street names.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Harnessing the Nile flood and keeping the harvests rolling in was as important to controlling the river corridor as defence against usurpers or an ability to exude pharaonic authority.
    — Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • In the poem, a usurper named Lugalanne—a military general who possibly led an uprising in Ur—drives Enheduanna from her place at the temple.
    — Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2022

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