Example sentences for: uprooted

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

  • Sports historians noted that the O'Malley family , which owns the team, launched one revolution in sports commercialization 40 years ago--when they uprooted the team from Brooklyn to make more money in Los Angeles.

  • Other states have blocked gambling--as Alabama did by defeating a lottery referendum this week--but this marks the first time in 50 years that a state has outlawed gambling and uprooted a living industry.

  • Titles of some of these films are Soy Mexicano de Acá de Este Lado (I Am a Mexican from This Side) (1951), Los Desarraigados (The Uprooted) (1958), México de Mi Corazón (Mexico of My Heart) (1963), and El Pocho (The Half Mexican) (1964).

  • Men, he argues, have been culturally uprooted and stripped of their identity.


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