uproot

Example Sentences

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How Maria handles her imminent uprooting is at the core of Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Touzani’s third feature, her follow-up to the similarly sensitive family drama “The Blue Caftan.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Salon

Over time, as people are uprooted from their agricultural communities as industrialisation tears apart people's familiar attachments, individuals become "alienated", he says.

From BBC

Neighbourhoods were plunged into darkness as power lines snapped, while trees were uprooted and roofs ripped off.

From BBC

It said around 50,000 hectares had already been uprooted, and another 30,000 would be covered under the new programme.

From Barron's