Sentence examples for rooting for something from inspiring English sources

But within the bowels of the stadium there will be one man — going back and forth between the locker rooms and alternating between two shirts — quietly rooting for something else: a clean game, in every sense of the word.

Players were furious about that, as you'd probably expect, but it was hard to blame the fans for rooting for something that would benefit the team in the long term.

And plant scientists are rooting for something green to win this year's bronze: The humble mustard's (Arabidopsis's) genome could be sequenced by year's end.

The tech market is merciless, and even the pro-Aakash contingent may find itself rooting for something more practical after a few months.

Sure, it's not exactly par for the course for the fourth-ranked smartphone maker in the US, but I likely wasn't the only one rooting for something exceptionally weird out of the project – like the piano playing robot hand or VR diving mask.

Ever have a moment when you're rooting for something that seems so positive to hit a touchdown -- but then suddenly spirals downward?

If you don't have to use root for something, don't use it.

Where once John Lackey represented the worst of the overpaid, under-performing players on the Red Sox roster, he has become a symbol of how these Red Sox turned their fortunes around right when their home city desperately needed to root for something.

A man who roots for something other than the home-town team must often account for himself; Russo's explanation for his devotion to the San Francisco Giants involves a trip that he and his parents took to Philadelphia for a jewelry convention in the summer of 1968, when he was eight.

You can give the gift of licensed apparel or, if you know the sport but not the team the giftee roots for, something more generic related to the sport itself.

It allowed us to root for something together.