How To Use Rootle In A Sentence
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He is the classic rootless cosmopolitan.
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On the water, meanwhile, the last White Lilies are sinking beneath the surface, the last gay Pickerel-Weed is gone, though the rootless plants of the delicate Bladder-Wort, spreading over acres of shallows, still impurple the wide, smooth surface.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
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Once, presumably, this quadrangle with its smooth lawns, its massive buildings and the chapel itself was marsh too, where the grasses waved and the swine rootled.
A room of one's own
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The rootless females dump their eggs because they have failed to find a territory, or have lost their own nests.
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This is a story about rootlessness, about impulsive, ostensibly whimsical wandering.
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The mold that grows off the surface of these cheeses gives off real small microscopic rootlets called mycelium that actually grow into the cheese and give off enzymes that the mold can feed off of," Lehner says.
Chicago Reader
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But how is material conveyed from rootlet to veinlet of leaf hundreds of feet away?
Among the Forces
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The barley was first allowed to germinate, or sprout rootlets, in a moist environment.
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Most of the commercially valuable wild species derive their nourishment from the rootlets of living trees in a mutually beneficial relationship called mycorrhiza.
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Plants exhibiting rootless corn symptoms have either lodged and are laying on the ground or are ready to lodge.
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Training at the Guildhall in London, he became one of the rootless types he has ended up playing.
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The animals are not tempted to eat the snowdrops, but when they rootle, it splits up the clumps, so after a couple of years, by the time the bulbs have settled and increased in size, they can be harvested and sold.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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There is a complexity and depth to these pictures that make most white Australian art look indecisive, rootless or stereotyped.
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Back in 1996, just after I graduated college, I drifted for a time rootless and aimless.
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The phenomenon of anomie - namelessness, rootlessness, homelessness - that so delights the sociologists.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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I think about her whenever I consider my own rootlessness and am graced by the memory of how quickly she sought land and soil to affirm her place in America.
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Colonial security and prosperity depended on soldiers, convicts, and slaves, but they were seen as dangerous because most were rootless young males who were alien from European settlers.
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May the police now turn up on a whim and rootle around in our drawers? safeasmilk 2 October 2011 7:47AM
The Guardian World News
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Brand New, DaisyFive kids from Long Island have a many appropriate Modest Mouse manuscript since The Lonesome Crowded West, a sawing, slurring, snarling thing, full of sufficient rootless fretwork as good as perplexed melodies to give Isaac Brock pause.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Culture provides identity and, in a fast-changing world of displacement and rootlessness, becomes ever more important.
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The Leek is a hardy biennial, and produces an oblong, tunicated bulb; from the base of which, rootlets are put forth in great numbers.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
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I sat on our scratchy brick stoop, dangling my legs edge, feeling more rootless felt.
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Such rootless veterans lacked the ‘settlement’ necessary to qualify for poor relief.
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He was, in truth, a nomad, a rootless wanderer, trailing from one country to another and one place to another, varying longer stays with many restless shorter travels, living alone except when visiting or journeying with friends.
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The horror of rootlessness in post-war Europe was understandable, but it needs revaluation in a multicultural age of out-of-body electronic experiences.
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The norms big rootlet of brick of floor tile, wall occupies the area size of the balcony to decide, withheld floor drain.
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I, a rootless cosmopolitan and a linguist to boot which means I have no trustworthy native-speaker intuitions, think I say "pinwheel," but the subject comes up so rarely I can't be sure; at any rate, it sounds more familiar to me.
Languagehat.com: MARVIN.
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He wrapped a quilt around my shoulders, put a plate containing one and a half stale bannocks in front of me, and went to rootle in the cupboard after soap, washcloth, and linen towels.
Drums of Autumn
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The phenomenon of anomie - namelessness, rootlessness, homelessness - that so delights the sociologists.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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Later that night, when she came home, she rummaged through her books in an effort to find an essay written by a polyglot (like herself) that explains the kind of rootlessness that is hers.
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These rootless young people have nowhere else to go.
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It opens very shapr and bold, with a certain peppery darkness to it and a coolness that can only be likened to heavy wet sand that is slightly bound by flossy rootlets of seashore plants.
Archive 2009-01-01
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My great-grandparents would be dismayed by the dereliction of what was once the kitchen garden, where our pigs now rootle under the few survivors of Milicent's dozens of espaliered fruit trees, but they would, I hope, be reassured by the survival of some of the plants they put in, gifts of their friend Ellen Willmott, the great Edwardian gardener.
Hancox: All under one roof
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My great-grandparents would be dismayed by the dereliction of what was once the kitchen garden, where our pigs now rootle under the few survivors of Milicent's dozens of espaliered fruit trees, but they would, I hope, be reassured by the survival of some of the plants they put in, gifts of their friend Ellen Willmott, the great Edwardian gardener.
Hancox: All under one roof
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Well, I suppose the academic chaps would say I'm a product of the diaspora, rootless, not really at home anywhere.
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May the police now turn up on a whim and rootle around in our drawers?
Invasion of the body scanners | Victoria Coren
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Such a language will be rootless and will evolve within decades into some kind of Pidgin.
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Rootless plants called lichens often cover and corrode rocks as yet bare of soil; but where lichens are destroying the rock less rapidly than does the weather, they serve in a way as a protection.
The Elements of Geology
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Once they have been rootled up to the surface by a wild boar, or the farmer has stopped drenching his field with fertiliser, or Longhorn cattle have trampled down the bracken, they burst into glorious life.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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To destroy it, robotize it, kill its many personas, make it sterile and plastic, like the little boxes made of ticky-tacky that spell rootless culture, would be a criminal act.
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
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In this tense account of danger and fortitude, the young surgeon discovers that he and his European medical colleagues are more lost and rootless than those they have come to help.
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He moved around a lot with his father's job, and a rootlessness developed that still remains.
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Consultants should have the expertise and screening methods to rootle out the better performing fund managers for their clients.
Times, Sunday Times
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The culture of the nation is to be replaced by one suitable only for rootless and deracinated people - a people that can be deluded that what it is told to think and believe is really ‘universal’ because it has long since ceased to have any real culture of its own.
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From the outside, it seems a rootless, ephemeral sort of existence, evocative of the chummy, locker-room familiarity that was a hangover from playing days.
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Freedom, unless it gets squandered in the name of fear or defiance, will endure long after this fragile, rootless hate campaign has burned itself to ashes.
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I think people from India feel rootless when they come here.
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With this object, the caddis worm cuts its moorings, that is to say, the rootlets which keep the cylinder fixed, or else the half-severed leaf of pond weed on which the cone-shaped bag has come into being.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
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We rootle in the cupboard and find green and red food colouring.
Times, Sunday Times
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we live in an age of rootless alienated people
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I have at long last been exposed as a "rootless cosmopolite.
Archive 2009-06-01
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The horse started off again, slowly and with clomping steps that churned up loose stones and rootless weeds.
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Consultants should have the expertise and screening methods to rootle out the better performing fund managers for their clients.
Times, Sunday Times
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Asymmetrical folds and axial planar quartz veins, isoclinal and rootless folds and boudinage of chert layers are common.
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To be denounced as a rootless cosmopolite in the very home of another notorious rootless cosmopolite carries its additional sting:
Archive 2009-06-01
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As narrator we have not a rootless and unchurched young woman but an elderly Congregationalist minister who has lived all his life in the same parsonage in the town of Gilead, Iowa.
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Sex was invariably a complicated human endeavor -- even when monogamous and marital it was the delight of anthropologists and psychologists, and in this case it seemed to have become necessary to complete the transformation of the cerebral and responsible Anne Waverly into the flightier, rootless personalities of Ana Wakefield or Anita Walls or whatever name Glen had picked out for her.
A Darker Place
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During surgery, the tumor appeared firmly attached to the posterior nerve rootlets, but gross total resection of the tumor was performed with sparing of the nerves.
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Leavers would say it is brave, antielitist patriots v the rootless, metropolitan, sneering rich.
Times, Sunday Times
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What sorts of people were attracted to an impoverished life on the road, a ‘career’ that emphasized one's alienation from upward mobility, a commitment to brutal comedy, grotesquerie, rootlessness?
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They rootled in the tall grass or shouldered in long, snaky lines through the canes, their trunks waggling.
The Trail Book
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The absence of root hairs on ‘stigmarian rootlets’ is also consistent with their origin from leaves.
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We rootle in the cupboard and find green and red food colouring.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was also many of the things the writer believed must naturally follow from all the above: vapid, spoiled, rich, uninformed, rootless, and complacent.
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a rootless wanderer
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Thus so called Symbolic Exchange turned out to be a rootless utopian fantasy.
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Asymmetrical folds and axial planar quartz veins, isoclinal and rootless folds and boudinage of chert layers are common.
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Though she keeps saying how lucky she is, all her drive seems to have led to a rather rootless life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Europe was a society of restless and rootless people, many repeatedly forced to move to try to escape the ravages of the Plague, others regularly conscripted for far-off wars, some in constant motion like the peripatetic court of Spain.
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The product of a lonely and rootless childhood, she seems always to have hungered for public recognition and apparently never considered marriage.
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Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs do not rootle but they do like to graze, so a grassed area is important.
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The barley was first allowed to germinate, or sprout rootlets, in a moist environment.
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A stock of young plants may soon be got up by division of strong roots after the flowering season; such pieces as have roots may be planted at once in their permanent quarters; the rootless parts should be dibbled into light sandy loam and shaded with branches for a week or two.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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The song opens lento and pianissimo, couched in rootless, muted parallel thirds (suggesting an augmented triad as they yield to mysterious, other-worldly, descending parallel whole tones).
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I know by now from having done it for the greater part of my life that this is a recurring theme, and I rootled around instinctively in search of the snowdrops.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk
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Hence the libraries and laboratories; the observatories; the splendid equipment of costly and delicate instruments which now stands on glass shelves, where centuries ago the grasses waved and the swine rootled.
A room of one's own
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He was, in truth, a nomad, a rootless wanderer.
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Repotting them has taken care of removing the mulch, which needs doing at this time of year so that the birds can rootle around in the pot and eat some of the nasties which are attempting to overwinter in there.
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When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless ".
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GrowthWhen we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless".
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They have all been harvested, re-planted, coppiced, grazed, undergrowth-burnt for hunting, managed for tan-bark, cut over for charcoal and rootled over by domestic pigs for pannage for more than a dozen feudal centuries.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Each time she came up against his rootless ways, she was dismayed.
WHERE THE HEART IS
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They rootle slugs and snails out of the flowerbeds.
Times, Sunday Times
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I rootled round the camp, and found Tertius gassing about as
Stalky & Co.
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Characters are rootless, without orientation, almost unaware that their behaviour is morally dubious.
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The individual freedom without rational limitation appears uncontrollable and rootless.
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Longitudinal sections of the embryonic root showed that the structures that protect the rootlet, i.e. the root-cap and coleorhiza, were strongly labelled.
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The Posterior Root (radix posterior; dorsal root) is larger than the anterior owing to the greater size and number of its rootlets; these are attached along the posterolateral furrow of the medulla spinalis and unite to form two bundles which join the spinal ganglion.
IX. Neurology. 6. The Spinal Nerves
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The menu was inventive but grounded, a balance that saves many top-end French restaurants from the all-over-the-map rootlessness so often found in New World kitchens.
A Foie Gras Tour de France
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As narrator we have not a rootless and unchurched young woman but an elderly Congregationalist minister who has lived all his life in the same parsonage in the town of Gilead, Iowa.
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These were the truly homeless, I'd realized that: still members of that rootless, shadowy underclass, for all the roof over their heads.
NIGHT SISTERS
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Below the cervical enlargement, the dorsal rootlets, roots and ganglia diminish rapidly in size.
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We have witnessed the rise of a rootless generation.
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The rootlet then drills into the branch and spreads its developing roots under the bark and into the living tissue.
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The species probably occupied rather dry, shrub-covered grasslands as suggested by the range of living wild asses and also by the frequency of rootlet impressions on the surfaces of many of the fossil bones.
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Also pigs; for half a dozen great raw-boned pink and dirty swine rootled about in the woods near by for sustenance.
The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915
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But if you rootle again I flog again: mind you that. '
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay
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They also include some people from ethnic minorities, homeless and rootless people, homeless families, and substance misusers.
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It is this sort of people and not rootless metropolitan babblers who value and indeed venerate the Queen.
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Yet maybe that eccentric, rootless Viking intrepidity would suit her hero more.
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Like the swarms of people who flock to Web sites devoted to the study of genealogy, company owners who fall into their life's work through happenstance or inheritance may feel rootless, even disaffected.
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I think this is the first time I have seen rootle in print.
The Guardian World News
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Dropping the clipboard, she rootled through the drawer.
Conferences are Murder
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Some were indeed rootless men and women, never appearing in the census or town histories.
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The phenomenon of anomie - namelessness, rootlessness, homelessness - that so delights the sociologists.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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A quick rootle through the Bod pre-1920 listings shows a mere 52 fifty-two?
In search of lost books
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Mr. Buruma is repelled by "deracinated," he informs us, because it reminds him (and perhaps only him) that "accusing Jews of rootlessness is an old anti-Semitic ploy.
Anne Frank's Afterlife
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Neither is rooted in Freudian psychology, though both were products of rootless lives, written after war and revolution had destroyed age-old certainties.
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But the downside of this self-invention is rootlessness - a condition city life tends to exacerbate.
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His rootless ness appalled him; he felt very alone and he looked for a link.
DANSVILLE
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Many families were rootless.
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When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless ".
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I love big cities and the rootless cosmopolitan culture that comes with them.
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It may be propagated by taking the slips nearest the earth, which will often be found to have a few rootlets, but if not they will still prove the more suitable; if taken in summer and dibbled into sand, they will make good roots in a week or two, when they may be transplanted to their permanent quarters, so as to become established before winter.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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They also include some people from ethnic minorities, homeless and rootless people, homeless families, and substance misusers.
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This is jabberwocky food: rootless, borderless, motherless, in-the-style-of food.
Times, Sunday Times
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Metro (another DMGT title) - free, generic, rootless and thus emblematic of our deracinated age - is in a dumpbin by the lift in the Chronicle's offices; an unusual example of inviting an accomplice to your murder into your house.
The Guardian World News
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Persecution, alienation, rootlessness, the seemingly endless capacity of humans for cruelty: these are Phillips's recurring themes, explored through a range of historical and contemporary events.
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They rootle slugs and snails out of the flowerbeds.
Times, Sunday Times
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When we plant a rose in earth, we notice it is small but we don't criticize it as "rootless and stemless".
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Germinating immediately, the seed sends out ‘rootlets’ to tap into the host tree's water supply.
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When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as"rootless and stemless". We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.
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Below the ground the central axis is a fleshy structure consisting of the swollen tap root and hypocotyl, similar in general shape to a globe salad radish, but ending in a thick strong root with numerous lateral rootless.
Chapter 23
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When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice itis small, but wr do not criticize it as " rootless " and "stemless".
