Example sentences for: grassroots

How can you use “grassroots” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Polling has whittled politics into a science, and money has monstrously deflated the importance of grassroots support.

  • It emphasizes the establishment of partnerships with Area Health Services around New South Wales, grassroots organizations, and governmental organizations.

  • PLoS was founded in October 2000 not as a publisher, but as a grassroots movement of researchers who believed that the results of the global research enterprise should be a freely available public resource.

  • The gambling industry did everything in its power to stop the establishment of this commission two years ago, but Congress and a fervent grassroots anti-gambling group eventually foisted it on the industry.

  • The Aug. 17 earthquake "sent tremors rippling through Turkey's political and social world, triggering a backlash against the traditional Turkish faith in an all-powerful state," reported Toronto's Globe and Mail . Although it is unlikely that the current government will be brought down by the crisis, the paper says it could lead to "the grassroots development of Turkey's fragile democracy.


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