uprooted

Example Sentences

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Yet few buyers are willing to invest in a place that may be completely uprooted.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Unlike Mann, Mr. Buruma writes, Furtwängler “could not imagine being uprooted from the German soil.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

As seasoned journalists, Brent and I had spent recent years documenting displacement — migrants crossing rivers in Central America, refugees moving through camps in Greece, families uprooted by hurricanes and conflict across the Americas.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

The hair-whipping, chest-thumping church founder uprooted her polarizing sect from Manchester, England, to Manhattan before fleeing farther still into the countryside.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

A lone Cyclops swept the street with an uprooted oak tree.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan