Salad baba, then don't fall into some kind of rootless limbo instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satanic Verses]

She might be called rootless, in fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hopeless Romantic] Reference

I believe the term "rootless" better describes the feeling than does the term.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

But the example of Hill Country makes me realize that a far better term than "rootless" is "many-rooted.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tablet Magazine] Reference

Suddenly, he felt rootless -- disassociated from people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Made Plans] Reference

I wouldn't call it being rootless; I'd call it being free.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Couple's New American Dream: Rent, Don't Buy] Reference

With his home gone, Deborah Rudolph sees Eric as rootless.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2002] Reference

In "Ceugant" there is only the Unknowable, the rootless Root.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference

A plant feeds only through the absorptive hairs on its rootless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

OCHS: This album, "Middle Cyclone," has a rootless quality to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neko Case: The Fierce, Fleeting Nature Of Love] Reference

The other two remain rootless; yet they are linked with the first.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traders] Reference

· Smaller roots grow on this thick root; they are called rootless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

As a youth he felt rootless and sought identification with a community.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

He was rootless temporarily, then surprised me by becoming my assistant.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Delphi and Die]

The tubers have no rootless, but are smooth except for wrinkles running across them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

He'll talk about the sense that he has of having no original home, of being rootless.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 22, 2008] Reference

It was the answer to the question that had driven her entire peripatetic, rootless life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memory of Fire]

Since severing ties with Wright and Trinity, Obama is a little spiritually rootless again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding His Faith] Reference

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no fam­ily and no purpose in life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

Touched with gold and red the autumn trees seemed to be sailing rootless in a shadowy sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

Today, as I see you holding aloft this rootless flower, I see you falling into the same trap.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Suissa: Dear President Obama] Reference

Yes, the latest manifestation of our mobile, rootless, but very anxious society is phone therapy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dial 'P' For Psychotherapy] Reference

These bacteria penetrate young rootless and multiply to form nodular swellings on the root surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Introduction and Summary] Reference

It should be sufficiently porous to allow the delicate rootless to penetrate and to admit air and moisture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Tartan tie: In an existence that feels rootless and suffused with combat, one needs a strong sense of self.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warrior] Reference

Then Reacher talked about his years since the army, the wandering, the exploring, his rootless invisible life.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Shot]

No roots: It's understandable that, like Reed, some ex-captives are left rootless and groping for a role in life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even When It's Over It Isn't Over] Reference

When transplanting the seedlings, press the soil well down round the tap - root and the rootless, without damaging them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3] Reference

These unusual structures occur as tight-packed rows of lateral rootless that form thick mats just below the soil surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. The Plants] Reference

The bacteria penetrate young rootless in the aerated surface soil layers and multiply to form nodular swellings on the root surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Our generation is a rootless, transient one, far more apt to move vast distances than our parents might have been, including my own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Growing Up—and Older—With Our Pets] Reference

Cropped at the top and bottom, it gives a slightly sickening sense of how unbalanced and rootless a postindustrial existence can be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back From the Wilderness] Reference

Fascism was born along the drifting paths of rootless men, often ex-soldiers who had fought in the First World War and been demobilized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Fascism, Soft Heads: James Wolcott] Reference