root for

How To Use root for In A Sentence

• Some method is then used to derive the syntactic representation for the derivative form from combining the root form and the affix.
• It's not hard to see why; on a superstar-laden $180 million team with a moribund offense, he's the humble, aw-shucks rookie making the minimum and providing the unexpected boost, giving the fans somebody new to root for.
• True it is that many root forms exhibit only two consonants (e.g. 07176a09. gif, sab), but these are considered as contractions of original triliteral stems (e.g. 07176a10. gif, savav), and the few quadriliteral roots that occur are almost entirely of foreign origin, or can be otherwise accounted for. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
• Some method is then used to derive the syntactic representation for the derivative form from combining the root form and the affix.
• Perennials, such as artichokes, asparagus and rhubarb are also sold in bare-root form.
• He finds a way for us to root for the callow man, and even root for Martha and him to find happiness any way they can.
• The Thals are one of the very few powers in this world able to make me root for the Daleks.
• One of the reasons why the debate about this year's Hugos has been so ferocious and (at times) ill-tempered is because while there are no pluckily ambitious outsiders to root for (such as Watts 'Blindsight in 2007 or McDonald's Brazyl in 2008), the list is also ignoring breakthrough genre successes such as Stephenie Meyer and Laurel K. Hamilton. MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards - Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles
• In sports, it's fun to root for the underdog because of the small chance that he can knock off a superstar.
• If the voiced variant contains the original ablauting Narten present, then would this mean that *qep- trad. *kap- is not the original root form and merely a dialectal variant of an original form *ɢēb-? PIE *kap- and *ghabh-