rooter

Example Sentences

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When Meek, a Mercer Island High School grad, signed with the Huskies, his grandfather became the team’s most avid rooter.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2022

I’m a real rooter for independence, and that’s what we see here.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2020

But even a rabid rooter like this reviewer did not know about “the Curse of Chico Ruiz,” an undistinguished infielder for the Cincinnati Reds who haunted the Philadelphia Phillies.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2020

Although I am the opposite of a Yankees rooter, I respect their rich history enough to have read dozens of books about their unsurpassed glory.

From Forbes • Jun. 29, 2015

You are a very useful rooter up of error, Baldwin; but you leave one's soul as dry and barren and useless as sea shingle.

From Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Lee, Vernon