Example Sentences

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We know that technology will uproot and upend.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2023

Well, bees are pollinators, birds eat pests that eat our plants and, if our animal visitors are thirsty, they will uproot our plants and eat the base to get hydration.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2021

But as millions of Americans file for unemployment, flooding food banks and hospitals, foreign workers worry that the pandemic will uproot them sooner rather than later.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2020

Coastal cities will be severely damaged, and some lost; international climate migration will uproot the lives of millions.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2018

We will not work for them anymore; come, let us undo the work we did to-day, you cut down the embankments you repaired, and I will uproot the seedlings which I planted.”

From Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Bompas, Cecil Henry