Sentence examples for like roots from inspiring English sources

In most plants the stem is the major vertical shoot, in some it is inconspicuous, and in others it is modified and resembles other plant parts (e.g., underground stems may look like roots).

"I like roots and continuity," he says, noting that his newborn son, Samuel, will be living where his namesake once did.

"Lizard skin and hands like roots.

Two shell bands, curling like roots, emerge from his lips.

It serves to connect you to the land like roots.

What feel like tethers one day feel like roots the next.

She handed me a bottle and said, "Smells earthy, kind of like root, raw vegetable".

A few minutes' drive away, on a sliver of sand that forms the Lap An Lagoon on the central coast of Vietnam, lies a modest grove of trees – some evergreens that shed a path of soft needles, and where the land meets the sea, Lang Co's few remaining hectares of mangroves, perched above the water upon their stilted, flying buttress-like roots.

Possibly dating from the origins of Red Shoot Wood in the 17th and 18th centuries, this huge oak has been caught by some vortex-wind, and lifted enough to break the myriad of cable-like roots anchoring it into the shallow clay that coats the underlying gravels.

It's a place of fantasy that brings out the Indiana Jones in us all: overgrown by forest and entangled with the gigantic, octopus-like roots of the kapok tree, Ta Prohm provides an insight into what Frenchman Henri Mouhot and other explorers must have felt when they first stumbled on to the remains of the capital of what was once the mightiest empire in Southeast Asia.

Once hunted for their skin, the freshwater crocodiles are now free to roam the banks as they please, often hiding in the spider-like roots of the mangrove trees, which also serve as a perch for multiple species of birds.