uproot

Example Sentences

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Efforts to help the crisis-hit industry include the government's latest 130-million-euro "arrachage" fund that opened last Friday, offering subsidies to loss-making owners to uproot their vines.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

Most are followed by restorations, social consciousness being harder to uproot than political structures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

More had settled elsewhere and didn’t want to uproot themselves again, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

Chelsea respect Sterling's position and are understanding of his reluctance to uproot his family for the second time three years.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2025

It was impossible, of course, to ignore the crosses, and each morning Jerry G. and Horsethief Shorty, occasionally aided by Bernabe Montoya and the state cops, had to uproot a dozen epitaphs.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols