Which preposition to use with replaces

in Occurrences 53%

France can rebuild her villages if her supreme architects, her skilled workers are replaced in the trenches by our armies.

with Occurrences 32%

EXERCISE - Slovenliness III Replace with more original expressions the trite phrases (italicized) in the following sentences: Last but not least, we have in our midst one who began life poor but honest.

on Occurrences 25%

The recovered horses were replaced on the road, and the stages and pony express were again running on time.

by Occurrences 10%

Crossing from these shallower regions occupied by the ooze into deeper soundings, we find, universally, that the calcareous formation gradually passes into, and is finally replaced by, an extremely fine pure clay, which occupies, speaking generally, all depths below 2,500 fathoms, and consists almost entirely of a silicate of the red oxide of iron and alumina.

at Occurrences 10%

Pascal Duprat replaced at the top of the decrees the words, "République Française," which had been forgotten.

for Occurrences 6%

In fact, he not only offered to replace for the time being my former servant Bendel, but actually lent me my shadow for the journey.

among Occurrences 3%

In 1836 and afterwards, it was replaced among the "Poems founded on the Affections."Ed.

from Occurrences 3%

In fact, any that it could give it had to replace from our own population almost exclusively.

without Occurrences 2%

But the king had still another resource; he sought delays; his eyes were fixed on the efforts of his friends in the north of Scotland; and he continued to indulge a hope of being replaced without conditions on the ancient throne of his ancestors.

after Occurrences 2%

It has been said that "there is only one way by which the wealth of the world will be quickly replaced after the war and that is by work.

as Occurrences 2%

He was at first appointed chief of the staff of General Cluseret, whom he subsequently replaced as delegate for war.

to Occurrences 2%

Lucy Steele's bad English, so delicately and truthfully indicated, would in the hands of another have been more obvious, more "effective" in its exaggeration, but the loss of this comic effect is more than replaced to the cultivated reader by his relish of the nice discrimination visible in its truthfulness.

under Occurrences 2%

They were formerly much attached to the House of Austria; but that attachment is now entirely changed to dislike, from the ingratitude they have met with, since they have been replaced under that scepter.

about Occurrences 2%

It must seem strange to many a reader that the very man who in early life could utter such sweet flattery, who long was the foremost to bear incense, should now consider it his duty "to seek the foot of clay beneath the splendid drapery, and to replace about the statue the aromas of the sanctuary by the perfumes of the boudoir."

during Occurrences 1%

We have seen how the financial questions which divided the people in 1790-1792 and gave rise to the Federalist and Republican parties, were replaced during the wars between England and France by the question, "Shall the United States be neutral?"

out Occurrences 1%

Casey told me that he aged ten years in the next two weeks, and lost eighty-nine dollars and a half in damages and wages, not counting the two water bags he had to replace out of his stock, at nearly four dollars wholesale price.

over Occurrences 1%

The French, the Italians, the British have to reckon with Islam and the Arab; where the continental deserts are, there the Arabs are and there is Islam; their culture will never be destroyed and replaced over these regions by Europeanism.

through Occurrences 1%

In New England where it was but gradually replaced through the influence first of the fisheries and then of manufacturing, it survived long enough to leave an enduring spirit of versatile enterprise, evidenced in the plenitude of "Yankee notions."

Which preposition to use with  replaces