Deep-rooted

//ˈdiːp ˌɹuːtɪd//

"Deep-rooted" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Japan may appear to be peaceful and tranquil on the surface but the fact is that there are a lot of deep-rooted problems.

This is a deep-rooted custom in Algeria.

Billy's cruel remarks highlight a deep-rooted prejudice against non-native speakers.

Swedish citizens, with their deep-rooted belief in religious freedom and peaceful coexistence, have no involvement in and firmly reject the provocative act of burning copies of the Quran orchestrated by a small faction of far-right individuals.

We were able to overcome deep-rooted conflicts and divisions.

Losing my parents is a deep-rooted fear that I have inside of me.

He observed the leaves of trees there abouts more deeply green then else∣where, the Oakes broad-spreading, but not deep-rooted;

1726, Jonathan Swift (translator), “Horace, Book I, Ode XIV” in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, London: T. Woodward and Charles Davis, 1736, Volume 5, p. 193, Poor floating Isle, tost on ill Fortune’s Waves, Ordain’d by Fate to be the Land of Slaves; Shall moving Delos now deep-rooted stand, Thou, fixt of old, be now the moving Land?

1791, William Cowper (translator), The Odyssey, Book 13, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, London: J. Johnson, Volume 2, p. 302, And now the flying bark full near approach’d, When Neptune, meeting her, with out-spread palm Depress’d her at a stroke, and she became Deep-rooted stone.

[His love was] as impossible to restore to growth as a deep-rooted plant torn from its bed.

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They avoid conflict at all costs because of their deep-rooted fear of upsetting people.

[…] Temporarie faith keeping residence only in the out-face of the heart, is ouerswayed & ouerborn in temptation by euery strong desire, or deep-rooted passion.

Notwithstanding the deep-rooted notion, even amongst the majority of painters themselves, that time is a great improver of good pictures, I will undertake to shew, that nothing can be more absurd.

1850, Charlotte Brontë, letter to Elizabeth Gaskell dated 27 August, , in Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, London: Smith, Elder, 1857, Volume 2, p. 177, Certainly there are evils which our own efforts will best reach; but as certainly there are other evils—deep-rooted in the foundations of the social system—which no efforts of ours can touch:

“He may be very well okay as a person. But other workers are not happy with him. Already they are coming to me with complaints. You see, comrade, from local standpoint, these caste issues are very deep-rooted.”

The installation of new pipes should resolve deep-rooted flooding problems.

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