Roots in example sentence

The events that he is rapidly forced to come to terms with are the separation of his parents, the culture shock when his Pakistani roots collide with a complete breakdown of English straitlaced society in the sixties, his father's dubious transformation into the revered Buddha of Suburbia, and the turning of his cousin into a feminist militant as his best friend suddenly becomes an icon of the burgeoning punk movement in the seventies.

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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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