He rejected the idea of uprooting himself and moving to America. From LearnThat.org. [ldoceonline.com]
uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
President Sam Nujoma to "uproot" homosexuality from Namibia, calling it a "foreign and corrupt ideology". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The American Federation of Government Employees, however, estimates the move would "uproot". From Wordnik.com. [Later On] Reference
The official said Sunday the special units will operate in four provinces believed to house senior al-Qaida leaders in a bid to "uproot" terrorism from Yemen. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
So every month I have tried to uproot a young tree. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur and His Knights] Reference
She could not uproot, all at once, such a deep love. From Wordnik.com. [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference
They can uproot large trees and can hurl great rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children] Reference
I will sit in there for hours and uproot and shoot things. From Wordnik.com. [Here] Reference
He would uproot the forest trees and tear the roofs from the houses. From Wordnik.com. [Story Hour Readers — Book Three] Reference
Lillie wants to finish her degree, and can't uproot her girls just yet. From Wordnik.com. [A Geek Love Story] Reference
Nothing living, he told himself as he ran, could uproot those huge trees. From Wordnik.com. [A World Called Crimson] Reference
Muslims may not poison the water supply, uproot trees, or destroy property. From Wordnik.com. [Sumbul Ali-Karamali: Muslim Cleric Loses His Head] Reference
To uproot these senseless and monstrous practices was indeed most difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
You will find it less easy to uproot faults, than to choke them by gaining virtues. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
As every schoolboy knows, with its mighty trunk it can uproot a tree or pick up a pin. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
The queimadas tradition, as old as agriculture, has proved almost impossible to uproot. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Two Steps Back] Reference
"When they fall over, they uproot the soil and create a very dangerous erosion problem.". From Wordnik.com. [Trump golf club in Loudoun removes hundreds of trees near river] Reference
And they aren't allowed to fail because their failure threatens to uproot entire economy. From Wordnik.com. [Katy Welter: Small Banks May Fail but They're Still a Better Bet] Reference
"But you see, grandpa, that was a fake and you know it's everybody's duty to uproot the fakes.". From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference
Instead of opting for a Corvette or a Porsche, I decided to uproot my life and go to law school. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas DeLorenzo: A Pre-Existing Condition Can Wreck Your Whole Day] Reference
It was like a powerful man struggling to uproot a rock, or a bear or an octopus crushing an enemy. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
It will be hard to uproot German patriotism while its future fathers and mothers are thus trained. From Wordnik.com. [In and Around Berlin] Reference
Women are generally more willing not only to work for less, but also to uproot and move to where the jobs are. From Wordnik.com. [Death Of The Male] Reference
They uproot ingenuousness from life, from thought, from education, and pursue it even to the region of dreams. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
The skepticism of the last century could not uproot Christianity because it lived in the hearts of the millions. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880] Reference
To uproot and old habit is sometimes a more painful thing, and vastly more difficult, than to wrench out a tooth. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
This will uproot hundreds of thousands of people and thus create more problems for the flood managers of Pakistan. From Wordnik.com. [Saad Khan: Pakistan Floods: They Are Not Over Yet] Reference
At the age of 77, he ordered the military to uproot all Israeli settlements in Gaza and to evacuate four more in the West Bank. From Wordnik.com. ['A Very Fateful Step'] Reference
Each style is a carefully cultivated garden that a new chairman will want to uproot when the next Cultural Revolution comes along. From Wordnik.com. [John Seed: I Don't Deconstruct] Reference
To isolate this issue and bring it to public referendum detached from the broader political context is to uproot it of all meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Ir Amim: The Knesset's New Referendum Bill: Dangerous Populism] Reference
Unless, that is, we uproot ourselves from our comfort zone and find a game with a context we neither know nor particularly care about. From Wordnik.com. [Let's start at the beginning of the football season, whenever that is] Reference
The Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance and Sierra Club have been trying to uproot the biotech beets since filing a 2008 lawsuit. From Wordnik.com. [Judge Revokes USDA Approval Of Monsanto's Genetically Modified Sugar Beets, Orders Review] Reference
Mixed-Breeds for having rooted the noble idea of horsemanship so firmly in the country that even street-railroads cannot uproot it, and that. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
That would strip Saddam's foes of their reed cover-and uproot the marsh Arabs, whose isolation has kept them out of Baghdad's reach for generations. From Wordnik.com. [Drying Out The Opposition] Reference
Teachings lest tempests and trials as yet unforeseen shake or uproot the tender plants so lovingly raised in the islands of this great Ocean and the land surrounding it. From Wordnik.com. [Japan Will Turn Ablaze!] Reference
But slavery, like many traditional abuses of nations, was so securely lodged, so difficult to uproot, that wise men at once deplored its presence and despaired of its abolition. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation in a Nutshell] Reference
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