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vb. (present participle of take root English)
Usage examples of "taking root".
The more powerful a ruler is, the more likely it is that the seeds of his downfall are already taking root around him.
If such plants could be bred, we might imagine them being seeded on the vast expanse of the Martian polar ice caps, taking root, spreading, blackening the ice caps, absorbing sunlight, heating the ice, and releasing the ancient Martian atmosphere from its long captivity.
But his soul was sick as he contemplated the cost of that Working, the darkness that would slowly be taking root inside her.
It was also important to keep fruiting bodies and certain windblown seedlings from taking root on one's clothing and skin.
He indicated a mass of dry brush with white things taking root in it.
What were the odds of a stray spore of that one precious mold taking root on the slices of bread I laid out wecklv?
His stoic nature, his long learned Jesuit philosophy regarding the acceptance of events as they unfold, and the acquired patience of a homicide detective were insufficient to prevent frustration from taking root in him.
Something wild was beginning to grow in the perfect garden of his faithhe could feel it taking root there.
The jungle was returning to dominance, trees sprouting, taking root within and above the arched passageways, the extending systems worming their way through the stone blocks, acting as wedges to pull the structures apart, to, inch by inch, year by year, destroy the edifices, rotting them from without and within.
What had once been swamp became firm and hard ground, with tree seedlings taking root on its east side.