Sentence examples for root up from from inspiring English sources

root (v.1) "dig with the snout," 1530s, from Middle English wroten "dig with the snout," from Old English wrotan "to root up," from Proto-Germanic *wrot- (cognates: Old Norse rota, Swedish rota "to dig out, root," Middle Low German wroten, Middle Dutch wroeten, Old High German ruozian "to plow up"), from PIE root *wrod- "to root, gnaw".

As the secretary of Housing and Urban Development and former mayor of San Antonio, Julian Castro's ethnic roots, up-from-the-bootstraps story and quick ascent in politics have earned him comparisons to President Obama.

All other plants except for meadow ryegrass were regularly rooted up from the field during the experiment.

The denominator is the number of possible paths one could take from the root up to the focal taxon if the number of nodes between the root and the focal tip is held constant.

"We built from the grass roots up, not from the network down".

"Be careful – what you're standing on there is the mangrove's lungs," he said, pointing at the little nubs of root sticking up from the mud, as we squelched over one island's interior.

Surely it is now time for politicians to rethink policy from the roots up.

GRADY: There are deep, systemic problems that need to be fixed from the roots up.

"King Suckerman" looked at D.C. from the roots up, with lovingly nostalgic scenes of playground basketball and late-night driving shattered by episodes of violent bloodletting.

I will help us to build our way back from the roots up, expanding our digital campaigns and rebuilding the face-to-face relationships we need with voters on the doorstep.

Davorin compares his childhood here under Milosevic's 13-year rule to that of a "hostage"; he talks of building Serbian democracy "from the roots up"; he exudes a fresh-faced determination that seems almost miraculous in a country so warped by war, so lulled by lies.