How to Use taproot in a Sentence

taproot

noun

• The part used is the long taproot of first-year plants.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 31 May 2017
• Plants grow from thick taproots that are quite deep on mature plants.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 29 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• These tough plants have deep taproots that enable them to store some water for lean times.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 29 May 2018
• But its taproot is country, a genre rich in narrative and myth.
  — Chris Vognar, Chron, 1 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This nutritious green has deep taproots, and can be grown to maturity best as a fall crop.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 25 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Their taproots can be dried and ground into a coffee substitute.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• Some perennials, such as dandelions, have a long, deep taproot like a carrot.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2021
• The taproot is where all the smaller roots come together to create one large root, according to wikiHow.
  — Michele Petry, House Beautiful, 1 Mar. 2023
• Some weeds, such as dandelions and plantains, have a deep, carrotlike taproot.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017
• 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
• Edited by Dava Sobel Absent of taproot, the black spruce leans madly where permafrost slumps into thermokarst.
  — Jessica Goodfellow, Scientific American, 1 June 2020
• Winning ugly is the taproot essence of college basketball.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 28 Jan. 2020
• 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
• These are the taproots that encourage the unjust discrimination against all beets that infects most small children.
  — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 13 Dec. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Unfortunately, the long taproot makes these trees difficult to transplant.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2023
• Using herbicide to eradicate wild violets is best undertaken in the fall when the herbicide will be transported down to the taproot as the plant stores nutrients for winter.
  — oregonlive, 6 May 2023
• Dandelions are another perennial weed, sprouting from a deep taproot in early spring.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024