uproots
- present tense form of uproot (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Owners say they are easy to carry and set up and are safer than umbrellas, which can cause injuries or death when the wind uproots them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
It definitely is a very important topic, and something that needs to be addressed in a way that uproots all of it.
From The Verge ● Mar. 29, 2022
In the book, Allie, an inventor thoroughly sick of modern life and convinced the next world war is imminent, uproots his family from Massachusetts to Honduras, where he tries to create a self-styled utopia.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2021
But Kong isn’t playful today; he uproots a tree, fashions it into a spear and flings it angrily into the sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2021
The wind redoubled might expends, And so well works that from his bed Him it uproots who nigh to heaven his head Held, and whose feet reached to the kingdom of the dead.
From Classic French Course in English by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
