Example Sentences

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With his own investments in western land, he was superseding the Ohio Company that he’d served as strapping errand boy.

From Salon • May 28, 2017

“It was an indication that football was superseding academics,” she explained.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2012

For the first time, the host country was superseding the supranational IOC.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a little while no one thought anything of crossing an abyss on a wire, and the mono-rail was superseding the tram-lines, railways: and indeed every form of track for mechanical locomotion.

From The War in the Air by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Throughout the western part of continental Europe, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, absolute monarchy was superseding feudalism; and in France the victory of the newer over the older system was especially thorough.

From The Eve of the French Revolution by Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson)