How to Use usurp in a Sentence

usurp

verb

• 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
• And, after months when covid-19 wholly usurped the agenda, Brexit is back to the fore.
  — The Economist, 28 May 2020
• 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
• 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
• Maybe the Supreme Court is getting tired of lower courts that try to usurp its authority.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 May 2019
• None of these can usurp the top position of that list from the devious aaloo methi.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz India, 26 Nov. 2019
• Here are a few things the company can do to better its chances of usurping Sony's title in 2020 and beyond.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2019
• Loki has tried to usurp Thor and Oden’s power several times and take the throne of Asgard for himself.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 8 June 2021
• First, recognize that the healthcare costs of being unhealthy can quickly usurp what you’d spend at the gym.
  — NBC News, 6 June 2018
• Johnson, argued Stevens, had tried to usurp Congress’s power to make law.
  — Erick Trickey, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
• There are many actions that the White House can take in the course of fighting this outbreak, but usurping the police powers of the 50 states is not among them.
  — The Editors, National Review, 14 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 9 May 2024