uproot

Example Sentences

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To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026

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

An estimated 75,000—some 2.5% of the population—had no desire to live within an independent republic that held memories of “terror, disillusion, and death,” preferring to uproot themselves to Canada and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

As women water vegetables and uproot weeds in a rural corner of north-eastern Nigeria, men in uniform stand guard nearby holding huge rifles.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

I would uproot some and eat them raw.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah