uprooted
Example Sentences
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The Yemeni civil war has uprooted millions of people, and the latest fighting has led even more to flee their homes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
A core conviction, she wrote in “Outrageous Acts,” was “that sex and race discrimination are so pragmatically linked and anthropologically interdependent that one cannot be successfully uprooted without taking on the other.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
On its 53-mile path to the Pacific Ocean, water ripped through orchards, uprooted orange groves and flipped cars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Her family uprooted from Pennsylvania to Nashville when she was 14 "so that I could hone my craft in the songwriting capital of the world", she said at the New York ceremony.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
