uproot

Example Sentences

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Efforts to help the crisis-hit industry include the government's latest 130-million-euro "arrachage" fund that opened last Friday, offering subsidies to loss-making owners to uproot their vines.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

An estimated 75,000—some 2.5% of the population—had no desire to live within an independent republic that held memories of “terror, disillusion, and death,” preferring to uproot themselves to Canada and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Batty did not uproot during his time at Blackburn, or even when he made the switch to Newcastle in 1996.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

If he had decided to run for the Dallas-area seat, he would have had to resign from Congress, uproot his family and move to Texas.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

I would uproot some and eat them raw.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah