uproot
Example Sentences
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To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women.
From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026
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
Most are followed by restorations, social consciousness being harder to uproot than political structures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
As women water vegetables and uproot weeds in a rural corner of north-eastern Nigeria, men in uniform stand guard nearby holding huge rifles.
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025
The storm that raged in him tonight could not uproot this hatred, the mightiest tree in all John’s country, all that remained tonight, in this, John’s floodtime.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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