Sentence examples for us to root for from inspiring English sources

She wanted the characters to be likable, for us to root for them.

The beauty of the original was precisely that Hecht and MacArthur trusted us to root for Burns without any extenuation.

He dances our sympathies between Zoe and Kate, asking us to root for first one and then another, both on the track and off it.

It's a faithful adaptation of some faithless misbehaviour; a thriller that initially invites us to root for the woman and regard the man as pure evil.

Part of what makes them so frightening is that they can upend our world, even cause us to root for a different team.

The show kept telling us to root for Karen, a wide-eyed Iowan with that special something, while Ivy was doomed to life in the chorus.

("1. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes"; "16. What are the stakes? Give us reason to root for the character. What happens if they don't succeed? Stack the odds against").

They give us somebody to root for and somebody to hate.

After years of talking down to us in politics and sports, instructing us on whom to root for, men finally figured out that women are the uber-shoppers.

We didn't want a fistful of club tracks and a few helpings of reheated beef: we wanted you to give us a reason to root for you.

Leonard Maltin gave the movie only 2 1/2 stars, stating, "like so many sequels, lacks the freshness of the first film and gives us no one to root for".