rootless
Example Sentences
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David O’Meara decided to buy the Malibu Cinema in 1972, a gambit to escape his somewhat rootless salesman’s life.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025
Breached rootless cones identified in the current study show similar occurrences of polyhydrated sulfates, further suggesting the blistered volcanic blanket may be hiding a vast sheet of glacier ice underneath it.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024
Some of those leftovers are linked to the last-minute installation of rootless trees, two volunteers told The Associated Press.
From Washington Times • Oct. 24, 2023
Dispossessed of his father and fatherland, a rootless Eastern European Jew on a continent gripped by nationalist fever, Roth’s self-identity was especially tenuous.
From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2023
She ridiculed her own attempts at genealogy; the family tree was wintry and bare, as well as rootless.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
