rootless

How To Use rootless In A Sentence

• He is the classic rootless cosmopolitan.
• 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
• The rootless females dump their eggs because they have failed to find a territory, or have lost their own nests.
• This is a story about rootlessness, about impulsive, ostensibly whimsical wandering.
• Plants exhibiting rootless corn symptoms have either lodged and are laying on the ground or are ready to lodge.
• Training at the Guildhall in London, he became one of the rootless types he has ended up playing.
• There is a complexity and depth to these pictures that make most white Australian art look indecisive, rootless or stereotyped.
• Back in 1996, just after I graduated college, I drifted for a time rootless and aimless.
• The phenomenon of anomie - namelessness, rootlessness, homelessness - that so delights the sociologists. A RODENT OF DOUBT
• 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.