How to Use root (someone or something) on in a Sentence

root (someone or something) on

phrasal verb

• When the Taliban was ousted in 2001, cricket took root on Afghan soil.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2021
• Ducks fans can root on their team at Pacific Beach Ale House.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• Steve McClelland of Buckhead showed up to root on his team.
  — Tamar Hallerman, ajc, 5 Nov. 2021
• Leblanc-Jomphe strides alongside the dune, inspecting the tufts of beach grass that have taken root on its crest.
  — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022
• Sesame Street's Elmo and his pup Tango will also be at the big game to take part in the starting coin toss and root on the puppy players.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 11 Jan. 2022
• Derby season gears up in spring and peaks in late summer, when crowds fill the grandstands at local fairs to root on the wreckage.
  — Steven Kurutz Stacy Kranitz, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2022
• Another took root on land owned by the state oil company.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 25 June 2021
• This year's contest returned to Coney Island with a plethora of fans – many there to root on Chestnut – in abundance.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 4 July 2021
• Even five feet of sea-level rise would erase hundreds of islands from the Earth’s surface, along with the unique cultures and ecologies that have taken root on them.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024
• Americans are paying top dollar to root on their teams in person.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2022
• Deep dive on ‘ibuying’ A new way of selling homes is taking root on laptops and smartphones across the country, writes Andrew Khouri.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2021
• Love, spirituality, and the death of his mother, for whom the album is named, all find root on Donda.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 17 Sep. 2021
• Her conifer trees, many now more 8 feet tall, have taken root on hillside plots strategically placed to disperse their seeds across the landscape.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2021
• Kennard attended Super Bowl 56 to root on the Bengals in person.
  — Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 20 Feb. 2022
• The pop star and Brittany appear to have grown close during their time together, even coming up with their own special way to root on their fellas.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
• The ligament, a soft tissue that is about 0.2 millimeters wide (about the diameter of four hairs), attaches the cementum of the root on one end to the bone of the jaw on the other end.
  — Samer Zaky, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2024
• Without it, life likely wouldn’t have taken root on Earth — or, at the very least, the type of life that covers our planet today simply wouldn’t have been possible.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 9 June 2021
• How does that dovetail with your explanation of how myth cycles have taken root on the Internet?
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2023
• Football is a cultural tradition in Alabama cities big and small, where the locals gather on a Friday night to root on the hometown squad.
  — al, 10 Jan. 2022
• Actors Marlon Brando and Paul Newman visited one day to root on the protesters and publicize their cause.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2023
• Landscapes around the building will be designed to resemble those of a glacial moraine, where vegetation takes root on contours smoothed by receding ice.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 9 Jan. 2022
• Kennard attended Super Bowl 56 to root on his hometown Bengals in person.
  — Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 18 Feb. 2022
• On the plains during the rains A hard and shallow layer of calcium carbonate, deposited by nearby volcanoes, prevents trees from taking root on the plains.
  — National Geographic, 30 Nov. 2021
• Because the community took root on 4chan, which tends to be a bastion of unfettered misogyny and hate speech, there has always been a small sliver of the MLP fandom that has skewed far-right extremist, says Orsini.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2021
• That would likely require them to avoid the new encampment protesting the Israel-Hamas war now taking root on the Columbia campus, which college officials have described as a violation of school rules.
  — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2024
• Fans headed for the Gainbridge Fieldhouse to root on the Indiana Pacers can expect more premium food items on the main concourse, menus from minority chefs and cashier-less markets to make picking up snacks more convenient this season.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Oct. 2021
• Seven weeks later, despite the government’s intervention to backstop depositors and extend credit to banks, the panic has taken root on Wall Street, which is now feeding on its own anxiety.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 4 May 2023
• Over the past few months, Bebop and Bebe have become the center of a sprawling, multi-armed conspiracy theory that has largely taken root on TikTok, driving millions of views and thousands of ostensibly concerned commenters to their page.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2022
• And while the most poisonous conspiracy theories have taken root on the right, progressives, too, have recently grappled with falsehoods in an anxiety-riddled environment.
  — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 1 Oct. 2020
• What has been excised from this new edition is Shelton’s album-by-album commentary, and the lengthy exegesis on Dylan as poet, which drew extensively on the emerging field of Dylan studies taking root on American campuses during the seventies.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 24 May 2021

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024