Sentence examples for exactly rooting from inspiring English sources

They're not exactly rooting for the Cleveland Browns, who haven't won an N.F.L. title since 1964, or the Detroit Lions, who haven't been champions since 1957.

It's safe to say that not all of them are exactly rooting for her.

Unfortunately, her son is a bit of a prick who goes to great lengths to explain to his mother how much he doesn't like her -- so, it's not like we're exactly rooting for him to succeed.

But Republicans in his home state aren't exactly rooting for his comeback on Capitol Hill, with a super PAC raising more than $1 million for a potential primary challenge to Radel in 2014.

For a sprawling epic with an oddly sympathetic antihero, look no further than 1972's winner, "The Godfather". (Or its winning 1975 sequel, for that matter). Each is led by brilliant characterizations of terrible people, and somehow the audience ends up, if not exactly rooting for the dark power in the lead, at least understanding his motivation.

For me, it was the integration and balance of flavors, which raises the question of what exactly root beer is, anyway.

Emilio may be "insignificant" in Paul Heyse's rather antiquated - even at the time - scale of novelistic value; he may also not be a "sympathetic" hero in the contemporary sense (you don't exactly "root" for him; his own dishonesty with his unfortunate sister and his friend Balli turns out to be far more insidious and destructive than Angiolina's).

If there is a map homotopic to such that one of its Nielsen root classes has exactly roots, each one of them belonging to the interior of -cells of, then.

I can't exactly root for the thirty year-old and the barely pubescent teen, you know?

I've screamed "come on!" at a pack of galloping horses without knowing which one, exactly, I was rooting for.

Part of the anxious pleasure of reading a book about drugs is never knowing exactly what you're rooting for.