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Example sentences for: roots

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Frazier does the opposite of writers such as Melville or Woolf, who historicize the language by shaking its roots.
But the black American speech at issue in Oakland--however one categorizes it as a language or a dialect--not only is pervasive but also displays features that one finds nationwide, owing to its roots in the black migration from a common region, the South.
In his third on-screen visit to his native Baltimore, Avalon (1990), the milieu finally was Jewish, but the director was more interested in making sweeping points about the cultural fragmentation of the central immigrant family--and, by extension, the American family--than in exploring his tribal or religious roots.
Inhibition of the ethylene response could have resulted in synthesis of transcripts that are uncharacteristic of plant roots.
1. Monica's roots may be relevant.