usurper

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

He cast himself as a reluctant usurper of civilian rule, determined to resurrect the failed promise of Pakistan’s founding in 1947 after its traumatic partition from India.

From Washington Post

“Lonely prince, obsessed with dead parent, watches remaining parent fall in love with dead parent’s usurper…?” Harry writes.

From New York Times

But Kirby Smart’s gritty, snarling Georgia program is going to make USC — and any other potential usurpers — earn every inch of it.

From Los Angeles Times

It remains to be seen how hard Lindell pushes this rhetoric against DeSantis, but the effort would be in keeping with Trump’s halting attempts to go after his would-be usurper as the party’s leader.

From Washington Post

Men, real men, White men, have nothing left but their simmering resentments toward women, Black people and immigrants — that whole mass of undeserving usurpers.

From Washington Post