How To Use Rootless 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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He was, in truth, a nomad, a rootless wanderer.
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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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Each time she came up against his rootless ways, she was dismayed.
WHERE THE HEART IS
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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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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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We have witnessed the rise of a rootless generation.
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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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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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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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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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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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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".
