ROOT in a Sentence

Learn ROOT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
179 example sentences for ROOT, such as:
1. Money is the root of all evil.
2. Love of money is the root of all evil.
3. Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.
4. The love of money is the root of all evil.
5. Because the root of sanity is in the balls.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ROOT
root
 n.  (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
 v.  plant by the roots
Classic Sentence: (125 in 9 pages)
1  Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
2  In this case, I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
3  Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
4  And a little thin tongue of fire suddenly flickered in his loins, at the root of his back, and he groaned in spirit.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
5  But at the root of the belly, where the phallos rose thick and arching, it was gold-red, vivid in a little cloud.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
6  Because the root of sanity is in the balls.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
7  Connie was half listening, and threading in the hair at the root of his belly a few forget-me-nots that she had gathered on the way to the hut.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
8  Her instincts towards social non-comformity were at the root of this.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
9  At last Yeobright made a beginning of what was intended to strike at the whole root of the matter.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
10  Each stem was wrenched at the root, where it moved like a bone in its socket, and at every onset of the gale convulsive sounds came from the branches, as if pain were felt.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
11  I fear, sir," said Holmes, "that, interesting and indeed essential as these details are, my inquiries must go more to the root of things.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
12  Atlanta considered him the root of all strength and all wisdom and it was not strange that he had absorbed something of their belief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  If her roaming sympathies had struck root anywhere, it was in her friendship with Judy Trenor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
14  The compact round body of its root expands into two broad, firm, flat palms or flukes, gradually shoaling away to less than an inch in thickness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
15  It was full of little brown chips that looked like the shavings of some root.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  Learning is a bitter root, but it bears sweet fruit.
2  Money is the root of all evil.
3  Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.
4  Love of money is the root of all evil.
5  Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
6  Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.
7  The food was analysed root and branch and found to contain small amounts of poison.
8  They came to the baseball field to root for their school team.
9  The love of money is the root of all evil.
10  Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
11  In the past the root of this plant was thought to possess magical powers which could cure baldness.
12  Security defined in the broad/broadest sense of the term means getting at the root causes of trouble and helping to reduce regional conflicts.
13  We found that two key resource uses and two basic technologies lay at the root of lunar industry.
14  This opposition may take one of the forms already described, some other forms which have been overlooked, but the root of the hostility is the same in all.
15  General Hospital, said The root cause of acne is a lipid-rich gland, the sebaceous gland, which sits a few millimetres below the surface of the skin.