rootless

Example Sentences

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Suddenly, she’s brandishing a mop and pail everywhere like a rootless knight without a quest or a horse.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

Most famously, there was "The Future," released in 1992 at the moment of liberal democracy’s supposed global triumph, which offered an eerie forecast of a rootless new century, struggling with the loss of existential meaning:

From Salon • Jan. 21, 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

A family without ritual and order was a rootless tribe subject to boredom and anarchy, lowered heads, pouting mouths, and sorrowing memories of friends left behind.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy