How to Use displacement in a Sentence

displacement

noun

• The war has caused the displacement of thousands of people.
• Now the earthquake has caused a new wave of displacement.
  — Bassem Mroue, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• The displacement caused by the war is almost as staggering as the death toll.
  — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 11 Sep. 2020
• This displacement in the string then travels down its length.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2023
• Tens of thousands have now been confined to squalid displacement camps for a decade.
  — Reuters, CNN, 22 July 2022
• There are many issues that are at stake in this process [of displacement].
  — Christina Noriega, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• The Archimedes screw is a form of positive-displacement pump.
  — Ben Finio, Scientific American, 11 July 2019
• 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
• Her displacement confronts us in the novel’s very first words.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• 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
• The promise of new jobs doesn’t have to come at the cost of sudden cultural displacement.
  — Ro Khanna, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
• 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
• And many were abused even beyond the displacement from their families.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 July 2022
• The ongoing civil war has led to mass displacement and flight.
  — Kalley Huang, Dallas News, 26 July 2021
• Gas plants that supply power throughout the day face the biggest risk of displacement.
  — WSJ, 16 May 2021
• The group offered ideas to the city on how to prevent such displacement and felt the way Wright feels now: dismissed.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
• The city also has safeguards in place for current renters to help with displacement pressures faced by renters.
  — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
• To do that, the two images are melded into one, which is fine for displacement.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2017
• The fighting in Ukraine also sparked a crisis of displacement.
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022
• Some see rising home values and the recent clearing of homeless camps as signs of more displacement to come.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• This is a bigger issue, and conflicts around the world leading to displacement of people and refugees.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 24 Oct. 2018
• The change of leadership could be fraught and could cause the displacement of civilians, however.
  — New York Times, 4 June 2018
• The Web also held constant through a series of displacements.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2017
• The knock-on effect has been a sharp increase in the displacement of Palestinian herders.
  — Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• That’s the highest level of displacement since the country’s civil war broke out nine years ago.
  — Adam Rasmi, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2020
• Some observers fear that the effects of displacement may be irreversible.
  — William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
• This would require a kind of pilgrimage by the visitor, a form of displacement.
  — Smithsonian, 23 June 2017
• There’s been none of the displacement or death that other families have suffered.
  — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2021
• So never fill the pot more than two-thirds full with oil to account for displacement and bubble action.
  — Claire Saffitz, Bon Appetit, 28 May 2018
• For some the move was temporary, but many are facing long-term displacement.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 30 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024