How to Use take root in a Sentence

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• Let’s hope that vision takes root.
  — Guy Mannino, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• Some of the blending will take root, some won’t.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
• If the lake didn’t linger, life might have struggled to take root.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
• But in Connellsville, that sapling took root.
  — Christopher Derose, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2026
• The less weeds in your lawn, the less risk of them taking root in your beds.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 June 2026
• This clears the way for scammers to thrive and rumors to take root.
  — Charles Salter, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2025
• This is the fertile soil where your next version takes root.
  — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 16 Nov. 2025
• In other words, the fear is grounded in enough fact to take root.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
• Those efforts didn’t take root in the Church as a whole, though.
  — Paul Elie, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
• Nowhere else has that model taken root.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
• Here’s why, how, and when to dethatch your lawn so healthy, lush grass will take root.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
• That night in April, an idea took root and rippled through the restive crowd.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• In the balks, on the edges of the fields where the birds flew and dropped seeds, wild cousins of wheat plants took root.
  — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
• This will prevent it from taking root in your compost.
  — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 14 Jan. 2026
• Slowly, though, a more vivid sense of who Souleymane is takes root.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2025
• Most infections won’t take root, and your body will boot them out within a year or two.
  — Grace Browne, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
• Use honest words, and let confidence take root.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2026
• But their championship standard took root long ago.
  — Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
• Scattered across the city, the country, perhaps in hopes that some of them might take root.
  — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
• His kid isn’t letting such assumptions take root.
  — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
• Why the Christian faith of my youth failed to properly take root.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
• So was the attachment that took root in two years in San Diego.
  — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2025
• When stress begins to take root, the ripple effects can be severe.
  — Ginni Saraswati, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
• This constant churn clears the way for new festivals to take root in a fight for survival.
  — Geoff Robins, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025
• But whether those seeds of intrigue take root and grow into real business is yet to be seen.
  — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 30 Apr. 2025
• Gardening is, at heart, an act of faith — trusting something to take root and thrive.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
• As fruit-eaters, sun bears disperse seeds, helping plants to take root in new locations.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• All four of us had to work and sacrifice to carve out time for this pie-in-the-sky side hustle to take root.
  — James Ponti, People.com, 15 June 2025
• What is no longer in alignment with your truth will be stripped away so that something authentic can take root.
  — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
• The disease had taken root in her colon and spread to her liver, coating it in tumors.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 18 Jan. 2024