How to Use dethrone in a Sentence

dethrone

verb

• Yet none of them has been able to dethrone Casual Carpool, a decades-old word-of-mouth...
  — Laura Stevens, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2017
• Art the Clown has dethroned Arthur Fleck as the box office’s favorite killer clown whose first name is Arthur.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2024
• That set the tone for what followed: a depressing, hopeless, plodding path, one in which our central hero had been dethroned and shattered.
  — Laura Bradley, VanityFair.com, 12 Feb. 2017
• That set the tone for what followed: a depressing, hopeless, plodding path, one in which our central hero had been dethroned and shattered.
  — Laura Bradley, HWD, 12 Feb. 2017
• But the team's failure even to come close to dethroning James and the Cavs will have an impact on all of its decisions.
  — Tim Bontemps, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
• The only thing that can dethrone Cookie Butter is better-than-takeout orange chicken.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 18 Jan. 2017
• One pretty decent horror movie has been dethroned by a truly terrible one in Netflix’s top 10 list today.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
• Dabkowski scored on a free-position bounce shot and dethroned the defending Baltimore County champions.
  — Craig Clary, baltimoresun.com, 6 May 2017
• China is no longer on track to dethrone the U.S. as the world’s No.
  — Fortune, 7 Feb. 2020
• The Tigers hope to dethrone the White Sox from their reign atop the division.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2021
• Will Serra be dethroned, in both its league and the Bay Area?
  — Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2024
• But the one that topped the list and dethroned an 11-year champion?
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
• Ed Sheeran has been dethroned by the king of rock 'n' roll!
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024
• Nobody could just come out of nowhere and dethrone a chess king, right?
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 12 Mar. 2021
• No team will ever dethrone the Cowboys — but that’s not the point.
  — Dallas News, 15 June 2022
• In its heyday, the Razr was thin, and one of the best selling phones, until the iPhone dethroned it.
  — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2019
• That's not to say that black is poised to dethrone the white wedding dress anytime soon.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 17 May 2022
• Wegmans dethroned Trader Joe’s in 2016, and has earned the top spot on the survey for the past three years.
  — Madison Roberts, PEOPLE.com, 15 June 2018
• But will that be enough to dethrone what looks like an Eagles team built to win for years to come.
  — Clarence E. Hill Jr., star-telegram, 25 Jan. 2018
• In the same six-game run, Kansas is 3-3, and if the Red Raiders dethrone the Jayhawks this is could be the pivotal stretch.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 10 Feb. 2018
• Rick must lead the rest of the people to dethrone TrumpNegan.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 Oct. 2017
• The success of the protest movement that dethroned Suharto meant that for a while the winds of change were with Munir.
  — Krithika Varagur, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
• And the status quo will fight to keep their power up until the very last one has been dethroned.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 Aug. 2017
• Not even the Houston Rockets, who were built to beat the Warriors, could dethrone them.
  — Justin Sayers, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2018
• Since Jacob, Noah took the top spot for just four short years before it was dethroned.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 3 Oct. 2019
• But this year, Popovici or the 20-year-old Helsop may dethrone him.
  — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2022
• This thin patty isn’t about to dethrone its heartier rivals — but that seems to be the goal.
  — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2020
• That’s because the Falcons have as good a chance as any to dethrone New England.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2017
• In fact, over-the-top platforms are on track to dethrone television in the country.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 20 Jan. 2020
• The Rowdies were fourth, but were eight-matches winless, which saw the team dethroned from first place.
  — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 16 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024