Yanked as weeds

Usage examples of uprooted.

Gesturing with his hands, the old man had uprooted the tree, then re-formed it into a canoe-type craft.

Bass made his location check, the reinforced platoon that was the Bravo unit reached an area where a recent temblor had tumbled many large boulders to the valley floor and uprooted most of the trees on the steep slopes.

Few of the recruits could identify the sound, a dull roar punctuated by heavy thumps, the sound of boulders and uprooted trees bouncing down the stream, which was in flood, as were all the streams and rivers in that part of Arsenault during the monsoon season.

The uprooted trees, and the huge trunks broken off by the final upheaval of the earth, made the old gentleman look very serious indeed.

Worthy using a chain saw on the uprooted tree, I decided to pay a visit to the Hookes.

Then, as the monster curved around as if stalking its prey, Selim uprooted the drum, gathered his tools, and motioned for the youth to follow.

Mistress Summerton had been bound in roses to the wooden mast of an uprooted sign which still pointed lopsidedly towards the Tropic Wing, then hoisted amid all the wreckage which had been borne here.

Two years afterwards he was found in the train of the Earl of Richmond--the future secretary, spy, and favourite of Henry the Seventh--now travelling by his order to find, seize, or destroy, the last blossom of the uprooted White Rose.

The floor was covered with CDs and broken cases, the smashed and gutted wiring of a stereo system, fragments of mugs and plates, uprooted plants, and the remains of a shattered glass table.

In the silence I heard a different, whistling sound of something whipping terribly fast through the air and glancing up tearfully, saw two or three bushes uprooted and tossed away.