rootless
Example Sentences
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Suddenly, she’s brandishing a mop and pail everywhere like a rootless knight without a quest or a horse.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
Breached rootless cones identified in the current study show similar occurrences of polyhydrated sulfates, further suggesting the blistered volcanic blanket may be hiding a vast sheet of glacier ice underneath it.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
Some of those leftovers are linked to the last-minute installation of rootless trees, two volunteers told The Associated Press.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
Dispossessed of his father and fatherland, a rootless Eastern European Jew on a continent gripped by nationalist fever, Roth’s self-identity was especially tenuous.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
There she was, planted before me in the path, rising on thin legs out of the rootless devouring earth.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
