Sentence examples for someone to root for from inspiring English sources

"But you have to have someone to root for.

With the older guys, there's someone to root for".

I loved his nickname — Pumpsie — and he really needed someone to root for him.

"Yankees fans who like him are people who just want someone to root for the team," Mushnick said.

Likability, someone to root for, victims of clear-cut injustice – classic main characters tend to the plucky and put-upon, à la Harry Potter or Sara Crewe.

You might argue against empathy being an issue with this sort of high-end foodie show, but at least MasterChef gives you someone to root for.

There's been someone to root against.

If he can, Yankees haters will truly have someone new to root for.

A well-developed villain makes the hero of the story someone we want to root for and love and someone worth continuing to read about.

The difference — and it is quite a difference — is that in "Basterds" he is a Nazi villain, and in "Django" he is someone we are meant to root for, someone on our side.

In general, he is someone we're supposed to root for, someone we're supposed to cheer.