uprooted

Example Sentences

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Footage online shows vehicles submerged, trees uprooted and houses hit by landslides.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Unlike Mann, Mr. Buruma writes, Furtwängler “could not imagine being uprooted from the German soil.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

The hair-whipping, chest-thumping church founder uprooted her polarizing sect from Manchester, England, to Manhattan before fleeing farther still into the countryside.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

Fearing for his life, he had escaped Syria after his family was uprooted again and again by fighting.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

Today it looked like a lot that had been partially bulldozed—an uprooted tree here, a half wall with a crumbling chimney there.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson