Sentence examples for eating roots from inspiring English sources

Then they try to stay alive by eating roots and tree-bark.

Residents are eating roots and weeds, and boiling grass for tea.

"I came back and found my mother eating roots and berries," he said, ashamed and sad.

For a time the small family led a life of extreme poverty, eating roots and fish instead of the normal nomad diet of mutton and mare's milk.

Spain is still in recession, and Italy has slid back, its people living in caves, eating roots and berries – or words to that effect.

Although they are capable of considerable speed, they didn't try to outrun the blaze but instead retreated into their extensive burrows and later, when the fire died down, survived by eating roots and fungi.

They're supposed to eat roots and berries, if you can believe that.

He ate roots and elk and, in a pinch, roasted a foal cut from a mare's womb.

A little over a year ago, surrounded by the raging Syrian civil war, food was so scarce that some of Yarmouk's 18,000 residents were forced to eat roots and herbs.

The perception has changed, in part because it was all wrong; in part because if you're going to eat seasonal and local, you are going to eat roots in winter, even if you live in California; and in part because roasted root vegetables, which most of us have discovered only recently, are, like, the greatest thing ever, and even the company cafeteria can't ruin them.

He noted that people have traditionally used the boats to fish for bream, tilapia and tiger fish and to gather fruit to eat, roots for medicine and water sage to weave into mats.