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Example sentences for "rooting"

Lexicographically close words:
root; roote; rooted; rooters; rootes; rootless; rootlet; rootlets; rootlike; roots
  1. Throughout these laws may easily be observed an ardent zeal for justice, and a sincere desire of rooting out oppression and violence.

  2. I used to wonder at it--and I now Wonder I did not see where such a flower, Where, and where only, such a flower could find Rooting to flourish in a world like this!

  3. I remember well what a jump my heart gave when in rooting about among materials--their weaves and dyes--I came upon the term "samite.

  4. Been rooting about for over a year now, haven't you?

  5. He was about to start on one of his official journeys, and just now was rooting things out of a back cupboard with explosive energy.

  6. As they go down they show soddy borders, they tend to fill and to grow meadows where presently deep-rooting trees assume their stations.

  7. In certain features there was close agreement in the case of all the specimens examined, especially in the long rooting character of the base of the stem.

  8. Brian; "but I know what has taken him out of our sight, for he struck himself with a magic wand, and changed himself into the form of one of yonder swine, and he is rooting the earth among them now.

  9. Now there was a herd of wild swine near by; and Kian changed himself by druidic sorceries into a wild pig and fell to rooting up the earth along with the others.

  10. But a general manuring as for a surface-rooting crop is not to be thought of, the sure effect being to cause the roots to fork and fang most injuriously.

  11. Full exposure during genial showers and fair weather is advisable, and an occasional examination of the plants will prevent their rooting through the pots into the soil.

  12. But deep and good garden soils may be safely trenched and freely knocked about, because not only does the process favour the deep rooting of the plants, but it favours also that disintegration which is one of the causes of fertility.

  13. Then a man came by, saw her, and stood still and thought that it was the devil who was thus rooting amongst the turnips.

  14. Such a cutting includes only two joints, the upper one being the growing end and the lower the rooting end.

  15. Hogs destroy many larvæ by rooting in the soil to find them for food.

  16. Merely wetting the surface by sprinkling encourages shallow rooting and therefore rapid drying out.

  17. The big hogs were rooting and tearing in the grass, some of them lazy, others nimble, and all were gradually working closer and closer to the bodies.

  18. A bunch of big black hogs had indeed appeared on the scene and were rooting around in the grass not far from where lay the bodies of Guy Isbel and Jacobs.

  19. Each man broke up, clearing off stones and rooting up whins, the best patch within his reach.

  20. I have wondered again over the openly avowed purpose of rooting the people out of the country.

  21. During the service two hungry pigs came, and in our full sight overturned the kettles, and, after rooting over the food, escaped with large pieces.

  22. Such rooting branches are called stolons, or when the stem runs underground, suckers.

  23. Some kinds of Clover, as the White Clover, are creeping, that is, with prostrate branches rooting at the nodes and forming new plants.

  24. Capable of rooting out, or tending to root out.

  25. The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

  26. Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy.

  27. Jacobina now declared it the duty of believers to prepare for the bliss of the millennium by rooting out all the godless.

  28. Theodora recommends the out-rooting of the Paulicians, § 71, 1.

  29. Annecy as his residence, had shown himself a good Catholic by his zeal in rooting out Protestantism in Chablais, on the south of the Genevan lake.

  30. Then some must let out the major's hogs, and they came rooting and tumbling with unwieldy gambols.

  31. It is propagated by cuttings with comparative ease, but its varieties are variable in this respect, some not rooting at all easily.

  32. They judged, in consequence, that this evil was to be remedied, before it grew incurable; and nothing was to be spared for the rooting out these Portuguese preachers.

  33. She was rooting in her purse now, and he knew that she was looking for her knife.

  34. Auntie left me alone in the afternoons while she went out shopping and banking and whatever else it was she did, and it was during those times that I could get myself into her bedroom and go rooting around her things.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rooting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.