Sentence examples for were uprooting from inspiring English sources

His cause was village folkways, and the Communists, whether Vietnamese or Khmer Rouge, were uprooting them.

Now the Earthquakes players and coaches were uprooting their families and moving to Houston for the 2006 M.L.S. season.

Betsy Dillner, director of housing campaign group Generation Rent, said runaway rents and a shortage of social housing were "uprooting families from inner London and stopping others from having children in the first place".

Meanwhile, the victorious Allies were uprooting some 10 million ethnic Germans from parts of Eastern Europe, where they had lived for generations, and forcing them to move to a shrunken Germany, with perhaps a half-million or more dying in the process from hunger, exposure or attacks by vengeful neighbors.

"Our lives were uprooted".

Lives were uprooted in the process.

Some 12 million people were uprooted.

Under Nazi rule they were uprooted and dispossessed.

He lost track of the times his toenails were uprooted.

Trees were uprooted, beaches routed and windows blown out.

Vineyards were uprooted throughout the Soviet Union; barely a quarter of Georgia's survived.