How to Use uproot in a Sentence

uproot

verb

• Many trees were uprooted by the storm.
• Will we ever be able to uproot racial prejudice?
• Taking the job would mean uprooting my family.
• Now came the time to uproot the last nine years of my life to move.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2022
• The storm uprooted trees that landed on cars, front yards and roofs.
  — Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2023
• The snap showed a large tree that had been uprooted and had fallen next to a driveway.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
• The third, which been uprooted before the fire and leaned against the building, now lay flat in front of the church between the other two.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• After all, many people uproot their lives and make somewhere else their home all the time.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Macchiarini convinces her to quit her job, uproot her life, and move with him to Barcelona.
  — Vulture, 21 Dec. 2023
• They are forced to uproot old trees, palm fronds, and lighting poles that are no longer needed due to the power outage.
  — Zoe Magee, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2023
• This is the time of year when Alaska’s migratory birds uproot and move to warmer places.
  — Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2022
• Most of those still in the villages are the elderly, who may have no place to go or no desire to uproot from lifelong homes.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• Its pointed tip is able to uproot unwanted plants in tight spots.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2023
• Migrants, to build fires, have uprooted trees and other brush.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Goldfish root around on the bottom of lakes and ponds looking for food, which stirs up sediment and can uproot plants.
  — David Williams, CNN, 14 July 2021
• That may be due to the fact the actor was hesitant to uproot or leave her family behind.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 28 Dec. 2023
• Because she's done what everyone tells you not to do — uproot your life for someone — and yet rom-coms tell us to do just that.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
• Downed power lines crisscrossed the streets, uprooted trees blocked roads.
  — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• The police did not uproot the seedlings in February, when the plantón began.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2020
• Livestock has been stolen, olive groves uprooted and burned.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• That’s because more people are willing to uproot and move in the summer, between school years.
  — Erin Hayes Burt, Dallas News, 30 June 2023
• There seems to be no resolution in sight to a crisis that has uprooted so many refugees yet again.
  — Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
• Many of Lively’s peers in the division are having to make the same difficult choice to uproot their lives for Disney.
  — Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2021
• Videos posted to social media on Monday showed large trees uprooted on the course by a storm that hit the area on Sunday.
  — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 26 June 2023
• As for her decision to uproot her life and try something new at this stage of her life, McBurney has no regrets.
  — cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
• That was the fifth quarterback switch in nine games for the Vikings, starting with the torn Achilles tendon for Kirk Cousins that uprooted everything.
  — Dave Campbell, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
• That’s when My Hometown stepped in to assist Nuckolls with the removal so the tree would no longer uproot his life or empty his pockets.
  — Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Oct. 2021
• Still, inequality runs so deep in the United States that even the nearly $2 trillion in the Biden package alone won't uproot it.
  — Paul Wiseman, Chron, 13 Mar. 2021
• The floods this year were the latest extreme weather calamity to uproot his family.
  — Zia Ur-Rehman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2022
• Art lovers are fundraising to help Sudanese artists, uprooted and thrown into crisis by the war.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024