The usurped crown sat heavy on his head.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : The pretender tried to usurp the throne. ,The magazine usurped copyrighted material.    From Dictionary.com. 

Russia, like ourselves, forced to see his name usurped without redress. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2] Reference

Does he think that Brown v Board of Education "usurped" what had been established law for many generations?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Thompson's Dissembling About His Abortion Record] Reference

One of the greatest lies consistently perpetrated is that the Bolshevik revolution 'went wrong' only when Stalin 'usurped' power.    From Wordnik.com.  [First They Came For - In Defence of Free Speech] Reference

Accuses YSR's family members and friends of having 'usurped' mines and lands in State.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

Reflecting briefly, war on terror "usurped" a great deal: 'political rights' and 'civil liberties' got eaten-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference

Qayum expressed concern about the fragility of the process and its vulnerability to being "usurped" by the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

"usurped" by that of the forecourt car and the vehicle identification number "inscribed" on its chassis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

I aso managed to use both 'usurped' and 'gregarious' in sentences multiple times tonight ... that is also rather amusing to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [vampishone Diary Entry] Reference

That role, he says, "has been usurped by the government.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Back To The Future] Reference

The authority of consul was usurped by both Cinna and Marius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference

Great, who usurped the kingdom, to the prejudice of his nephew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 45: 1 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference

Little wonder sports usurped Hollywood as America's dream factory.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Favorite Year] Reference

Once quintessentially American icons have been usurped by the natives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Rest] Reference

These areas have been deserted by their native wildlife and usurped by invaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diversity Disappears In Florida] Reference

As more people built more houses, they usurped territory once largely inhabited by wild animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Predators On The Prowl] Reference

In the 1990s these groups, sponsored by Pakistan, usurped the anti-India movement within Kashmir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stop Crossing The Lines] Reference

  If some organization or person was working on something, it worked with them, not usurped them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Senate Sketches # 1212] Reference

The case even temporarily usurped the hallowed Cornhuskers football team as the hottest topic in town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marriage Or Rape?] Reference

If starved for oxygen, heart cells die, their places usurped not by fresh replacements but by scarring.    From Wordnik.com.  [REBUILDING THE HEART] Reference

In the first story, a man's identity is usurped (or replaced) by a cell phone with calls intended for another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fame by Daniel Kehlman, translated by Carol Brown Janeway] Reference

But it soon became manifest that the Vigilance Committee had no intention to surrender the power thus usurped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

I told police that this is actually the 60th anniversary of power being usurped by the Communist Party of China.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Not an Isolated Incident’] Reference

The celebration of being famous for being loud and sloppy has usurped being famous for the act of actually creating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Pinter: Why Should We Celebrate Jonathan Franzen? Because Books Still Matter] Reference

Beijing protested, saying the court had usurped the authority of China's national legislature to control immigration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Shadows] Reference

That these sayings are not mere talk is plain from the story of Avidius Cassius, who would have usurped his imperial throne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

So, will the Murano again be a frequent visitor in our Personal Picks, or have newer SUVs usurped its place in our affections?.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the logbook: Nissan Murano] Reference

"Shall we say, rather, that on Earth the government has usurped certain functions which rightfully belong to private enterprise?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Anchorite] Reference

Pro football might take a cue from pro basketball, the game that during the past decade usurped its status as the nation's "hot" sport.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Instant Answers] Reference

Historically speaking, perhaps, the Earth government has usurped the functions that rightfully belong to kings, dictators, and warlords.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anchorite] Reference