Sentence examples for Deracinate from inspiring English sources

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Deracinate

verb

To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.

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To collect the artistic riches from the region and put them on display in the Sassi would deracinate them, he argues.

William A. Donohue, the league's president, called discontinuing the cross an attempt to "deracinate Christmas".

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But her father, Cecil Volk, was a deracinated Jew.

But also there is the hostility of the deracinated Arab-Israeli minority; the loss of the mental strength that saw the pioneers through those first dangerous years; the corrupting effects of the occupation; and the crumbling of Israeli national identity.

But, for all his lusty support of England's football team, he is not one of those deracinated upper-caste Scots with scarcely perceptible accents.

The centrally-planned settlements she passes are "total dumps", the native peoples all too often deracinated and undone by drink and poverty.

There's excitement to it, yes, but for me, all the showbusiness I've experienced can be deracinating.

A once-great party is being deracinated, in the sense that it values and desires to conserve the essential institutions and traditions of a country.

Goold's brilliant production team — with Adam Cork's soundscape; Lorna Heavey's smash-cut video and projections; Howard Harrison's moody lighting design; Anthony Ward's brutalist set — unsettles the senses and sets the stage for the deracinated and the uncanny.

("Jesus, it's called basic gumption. Do you know how you spell that?") These former boyars were now displaced and deracinated — and had "no money at all".

Somehow, he manages not to be, partly because he is so enterprising, partly because the city he writes about is not quite so white collar or so deracinated as its cheerleaders like to think.

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