How to Use taproot in a Sentence
taproot
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The part used is the long taproot of first-year plants.
—Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 31 May 2017
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Plants grow from thick taproots that are quite deep on mature plants.
—The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 29 May 2018
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From its lovely purple-black berries to the very tip of its stout, white taproot, the plant is poison.
—Dave Taft, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
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Spinach plants form a deep taproot; for best growth, loosen the soil at least 1 foot deep before planting.
—The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 15 Feb. 2018
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Purple coneflowers can live for decades and send up a fresh sprout each year from a taproot deep in the soil.
—Popular Science, 29 Jan. 2020
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These tough plants have deep taproots that enable them to store some water for lean times.
—The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 29 May 2018
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But its taproot is country, a genre rich in narrative and myth.
—Chris Vognar, Chron, 1 Mar. 2023
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The coastal glaciers are like rootlets tendriling off the taproot of Greenland’s interior, the channels through which much of the ice is lost.
—Jonathan Nackstrand, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
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When cut from the top, the growing point for the taproot is removed, however the growing tip for new leaves is not removed.
—oregonlive, 15 May 2022
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Small and medium-size beets tend to be more flavorful, and ideally the taproot, the thin long root at the bottom, is still attached.
—Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
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This nutritious green has deep taproots, and can be grown to maturity best as a fall crop.
—Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 25 Oct. 2017
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With a few years under its belt, the taproot expands into an impressive tuber that needs to be dug out.
—Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 24 Sep. 2020
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The weeding tool can remove grass, moss, and small taproot weeds like dandelions from the cracks in patio landscaping.
—Lily Gray, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 May 2022
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But the taproot of Yogi Adityanath’s popularity is in a more ominous place.
—Ellen Barry and Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 12 July 2017
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Some perennials, such as dandelions, have a long, deep taproot like a carrot.
—Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2021
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Some weeds, such as dandelions and plantains, have a deep, carrotlike taproot.
—Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017
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If women could batter other women, and men other men, then gender could not be the taproot of oppression.
—Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2019
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Edited by Dava Sobel Absent of taproot, the black spruce leans madly where permafrost slumps into thermokarst.
—Jessica Goodfellow, Scientific American, 1 June 2020
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Winning ugly is the taproot essence of college basketball.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 28 Jan. 2020
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Colette, who was vividly at home in France and always carried with her the taproot experience of the Burgundian home and garden of her mother.
—New York Times, 23 Aug. 2022
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These are the taproots that encourage the unjust discrimination against all beets that infects most small children.
—Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 13 Dec. 2017
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Moreover, the weeding tool is best used with taproot weeds like dandelions, or rhizomes like nettles instead of annual weeds that are sadly best pulled by hand or with a smaller tool.
—Lily Gray, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2022
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The exhibition argues that Peterloo served as a kind of taproot for public political protest in Britain — and perhaps beyond.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
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In contrast to a typical skyscraper, in which same-size floors are piled atop one another like so many pancakes, the taproot system lets floors vary in size, opening a high-rise's interior and letting space flow between floors.
—Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
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Unfortunately, the long taproot makes these trees difficult to transplant.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2023
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Dandelions are another perennial weed, sprouting from a deep taproot in early spring.
—Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
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As a companion plant, purslane provides ground cover and retains humidity, and the deep taproot breaks through difficult soil and extracts nutrients nearby plants can use.
—Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 24 May 2017
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Pawpaw trees develop a deep taproot, and contain delicate, fibrous roots.
—Andrew Moore, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2018
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Reverting to tribalism is the taproot of our social and political polarization.
—WSJ, 7 Nov. 2018
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