How to Use take root in a Sentence

take root

idiomatic phrase

• That’s where ‘Kaitlin gets Seth hooked on pot’ took root.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
• If the lake didn’t linger, life might have struggled to take root.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
• That night in April, an idea took root and rippled through the restive crowd.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Over time, the asada way of life took root in Los Angeles.
  — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• In the United States, meanwhile, a solipsism took root.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• That was when the seeds of this issue’s exploration of the brand’s new direction took root.
  — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2024
• Most infections won’t take root, and your body will boot them out within a year or two.
  — Grace Browne, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
• The name had taken root in my brain and defeated all comers.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• The disease had taken root in her colon and spread to her liver, coating it in tumors.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 18 Jan. 2024
• Among the small firms that took root in this newly open environment was Google.
  — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2023
• But even as the team moves on to Sunday morning’s knockout game against Sweden, the seeds of doubt have taken root.
  — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
• There is no occupier who can take root in our free land.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 9 May 2022
• That debate is at the heart of public camping bans that have taken root in San Diego and other cities.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024
• As fruit-eaters, sun bears disperse seeds, helping plants to take root in new locations.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• As rich households take root in the Sunshine State, locals have started to scramble.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2023
• Abe, whose grandfather and former leader Nobusuke Kishi helped the church to take root in Japan, is now seen as a key figure in the scandal.
  — Time, 26 Sep. 2022
• Not everything is going smoothly as the changes take root.
  — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Feb. 2022
• Lessons must be given time to take root and unfold like flowers, not forcefully pulled apart.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 14 June 2023
• The falling seeds from red firs and pines that would naturally take root and help replenish the landscape with native conifers were torched in the fire.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2022
• Yet seeds of unease have taken root among residents like Ms. Henelund who say their voices have been drowned out.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2024
• Climbing hydrangea can also be used as ground cover, taking root where the suckers make contact with the ground and filling in the area.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 18 Mar. 2024
• This violence took root in Mali in 2012 before spreading to its neighbors.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• Related The trio’s friendship took root by way of their weekend chill time away from the spotlight as adolescents.
  — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2023
• The Great Depression ended that dream, and other developments took root in the 1960s.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
• Albuquerque is only one of dozens of programs that have taken root since 2020, the precise scope of which is different from city to city.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• Its now-famous banyan tree took root a few decades later, as an eight-foot-tall sapling planted in front of the Lahaina Courthouse and Lahaina Harbor.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
• Meanwhile, Scharf and his team are still cleaning up the scandals that took root under their predecessors.
  — Tanaz Meghjani, Fortune, 24 July 2023
• But his ambition to present national touring jazz artists seems to be taking root.
  — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
• Unlike their lowland kin, however, the wildflowers that take root at 9,500 feet have a short window in which to blossom before the first frost sets in.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2023
• As peanuts took root in America, boiling excess crops became a way to conserve and stretch supplies.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 28 June 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024