Example Sentences

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They were uprooting the trees, and to Madhumita Bagh, who helps oversee the village’s mangrove efforts, it was like someone beating her child.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2022

When it made landfall, winds of up to 210 km/hr were uprooting coconut trees, ripping down electricity poles, and hurling slabs of corrugated tin and wood through the air.

From Reuters • Dec. 22, 2021

As he went about gathering up his books he felt as if he were uprooting things.

From O Pioneers! by Cather, Willa Sibert

The great bodies of the alarmed beasts hurl themselves through the thicket, smash! bang! crash! smash! as though a tornado were uprooting the forest.

From The Land of Footprints by White, Stewart Edward

The King of Prussia was ordered to suppress the "League of Virtue," and French spies supposed they were uprooting patriotism by reporting it as treason to France.

From A Short History of Germany by Parmele, Mary Platt