Roots in example sentence

And what was so fun about it was this: the skull pieces got closer and closer to the roots of the tree, and fairly recently the tree had grown up, but it had found that the skull had captured nice water in the hillside, and so it had decided to grow its roots in and around this, holding it in place and preventing it from washing away down the slope.

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They took the tapioca roots up to the kitchen, sliced them thinly and made delicious chips.

So these are little ordinary, everyday heroes, and they're incredibly admirable, but there's no way that they can sustain this kind of activity in the face of a system that either roots them out or grinds them down.

Roots make a firm foundation.

And when you watch bonobo play, you're seeing the very evolutionary roots of human laughter, dance and ritual.

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