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Example sentences for "uprooted"

Lexicographically close words:
uproar; uproarious; uproariously; uproars; uproot; uprooting; uproots; uprose; uprush; uprushes
  1. Nothing could so effectually have uprooted Satan from the affections of the heavenly angels and the whole loyal universe, as did his cruel warfare upon the world’s Redeemer.

  2. The ground rose in little mounds and ridges about the base of the bole, the tree tilted--in another moment it would be uprooted and fall.

  3. By and by, an uprooted tree, with shattered branches, came drifting along the current, and got entangled among the rocks.

  4. Nor would she be convinced, although Theseus showed her the place where he fancied that the stem of a flower had been partly uprooted by the movement of the rock.

  5. Besides, as you may see for yourself, the river is very boisterous; and if I should chance to stumble, it would sweep both of us away more easily than it has carried off yonder uprooted tree.

  6. When he was half way across, the uprooted tree (which I have already told you about) broke loose from among the rocks, and bore down upon him, with all its splintered branches sticking out like the hundred arms of the giant Briareus.

  7. If it were not for that, we should soon look like bunches of uprooted seaweed dried in the sun.

  8. Before them, a large area of the jungle was pounded down and lying amidst the tangle of giant creepers and uprooted bushes was the remains of a giant snake.

  9. Then, after one convulsive kick with its hind legs that uprooted a near-by tree, the beast stiffened and lay still.

  10. Uprooted in Italy, uprooted in Spain, uprooted shall it be in France and everywhere!

  11. The river was full of drift; great uprooted trees and timbers from houses and barns that had been swept from their foundations and reduced to wreckage; driftwood from thousands of miles of shore.

  12. A new flood had come down the river, bringing with it a dangerous drift of uprooted trees and the like.

  13. Indeed, with Mr. Dutton settled near, and with the prospect of a daily walk from church with him, she felt such a complete content and trust as she had not known since she had been uprooted from Micklethwayte.

  14. Taking in his hand the uprooted beech-tree as a club and armed only with it, Vitazko set forth.

  15. The youth laid hold on the tree and with one mighty pull uprooted it.

  16. They had all been razed or else uprooted like the rocks and trees and carried on in that irresistible rush.

  17. A huge rock had, as if forcibly detaching itself, flown off from the avalanche and buried itself in the ground only a few feet beyond Harry and Pearl, and more than one uprooted tree lay near them.

  18. He scratched forward at nearly everything, and when Burgess, who had been resting, took up the ball again, he had each stump uprooted in a regular series in seven balls.

  19. Obsessive fear which is at the bottom of every worry is due to certain complexes, at times apparently unrelated to the actual disturbance, and which cannot be unearthed and uprooted except by a thoroughgoing psychological analysis.

  20. That fear has to be determined and uprooted by psychoanalysis.

  21. A great uprooted tree, tossed wildly along by the turbulent stream, had probably been swept against this barrier with such force as to become partially embedded in it.

  22. The deaf elephant uprooted me on a sudden from my place, and then gave me a push.

  23. He thought at first that it was possibly a sapling which had been uprooted and fallen, but this idea was negatived on his approaching the spot.

  24. He had thus made a complete circuit, and come to a point where the hillside rose steeply above the path and was strewn with several fallen trees uprooted or overthrown by the previous autumn's storms.

  25. He uprooted a lingering primrose, and crept down with it.

  26. And yet such a deviation into the maleficent is always possible when a code is uprooted from its rational soil and transplanted into a realm of imagination, where it is subject to all sorts of arbitrary distortions.

  27. The cedar puffed up with pride of its beauty, separated itself from the trees around it and in so doing it turned away towards the wind, which not being broken in its fury, flung it uprooted on the earth.

  28. Between them stretched the bramble-bush; a tangle of underbrush; stark sycamore-trees that rattled hideously in the winter wind; uprooted madrone bushes stretching distorted claws heavenward in a mute appeal for vengeance.

  29. By and by an uprooted tree, with shattered branches, came drifting along the current and got entangled among the rocks.

  30. When he was half way across the uprooted tree (which I have already told you about) broke loose from among the rocks and bore down upon him with all its splintered branches sticking out like the hundred arms of the giant Briareus.

  31. Yes, and at some of his more moving tunes the rocks bestirred their moss-grown bulk out of the ground, and a grove of forest trees uprooted themselves and, nodding their tops to one another, performed a country dance.

  32. The choice lay between their security and his future dominion, and he uprooted their dwellings as ruthlessly as any conqueror sets aside the obstacles in his path.

  33. At the end of his life idolatry was uprooted from his native country.

  34. But immediately afterwards it began again with a frightful crackling; the weight of the snowy mass had uprooted the obstructing rock, and whirling down with it in dizzy rotations, plunged perpendicularly into the lake below.

  35. A torrent of yellow mud rushed furiously athwart the calm blue current of the Mississippi; boiling and surging, and sweeping in its course logs, branches, and uprooted trees.


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