rooting

Example Sentences

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Trump and Mamdani will be rooting for the same team on Monday night.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

“I don’t want the audience rooting for Max, necessarily, but I want to trick them into having sympathy for somebody they didn’t expect to have sympathy for.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

He’d been rooting around dusty barns at an agricultural estate sale and found pristine packs of Chiclets and Life Savers inside a sealed Mason jar, including one unopened Choc-O-Mint.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

The accusation that voicing criticism of a campaign waged on flawed assumptions and fanciful expectations means rooting for the enemy is repugnant.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

They called themselves Patriots, which meant they were rooting for the Americans to win the war.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis