How to Use grassroots in a Sentence

grassroots

1 of 2 adjective
Definition of grassrootsnext
  • Indeed, much of the work with girls is being done at the grassroots level.
    — Anne M. Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2023
  • There is little wrong at the grassroots level of track and field, which has been the fastest-growing sport in high school.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2022
  • So to me, that’s the first objective: to give this kind of grassroots level training.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • That funded the creation of the U.S. Soccer Foundation and helped grow the game at the grassroots level.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • What made the difference was the grassroots movement on the other side.
    — Tom Steyer, Fortune, 28 May 2024
  • This is a grassroots campaign — Vivek is not beholden to the donor class to fund his campaign.
    — Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner, 20 July 2023
  • Chehade said his grassroots campaign appeals to the many voters in the new 3rd District who are sick of the machine.
    — John Byrne, chicagotribune.com, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The new law was made possible by years of grassroots efforts.
    — Daniel Eduardo Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Maybe the return to grassroots events and playing for each other is what success could mean.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 June 2024
  • No one in this grassroots community wants psychedelics to go down that road.
    — Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2022
  • Many of the opponents are members of a grassroots local group called Oceanside Speaks Out.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • So is this really up to grassroots groups and state governments at this point?
    — CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Amazon has gone 27 years without a US union, but a grassroots effort at a warehouse in New York could soon change that.
    — Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Others strictly work at the grassroots level, fighting the powers that be.
    — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Dan started saying to me that there’s a grassroots approach to this to get people excited about the film.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Social movements such as the SPA are often based on grassroots activism.
    — Justin Lynch, CNN, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The grassroots opposition to dollar stores is just the latest bump in the road for these retailers.
    — Carey L. Biron, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2024
  • But the next generation is undeterred and hard at work at the grassroots level.
    — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Sir bought cameras and learned how to edit video to help with grassroots marketing efforts.
    — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The campaign, which announced the total on Sunday, said 66% of the funds came from first-time donors, touting grassroots support for Harris' bid.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 28 July 2024
  • Sometimes during these fundraising trips, candidates make a side trip to speak to grassroots groups, too.
    — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Started in 2007 in a grassroots way, PSD Underwear is a top men’s underwear brand.
    — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Ajamou Butler said the effort has lasted for so long because of grassroots support.
    — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2022
  • Harris has also racked up a record $81 million in grassroots donations in the first 24 hours since Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed his vp on Sunday.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
  • Behar noted how, in its early days, Walters pushed the show on a grassroots level, going door-to-door in a campaign to get the show on more channels.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Yet for baseball in Uganda to improve — and for the Dodgers to cash in on their investment — grassroots support is essential.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • This is probably a little more of a grassroots situation of trying to help kids and teach them the game of basketball.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 8 May 2023
  • It’s now a classic part of Legion FC team lore, and one of the best examples of grassroots fandom in this modern digital age.
    — Joseph Goodman, al, 8 June 2022
  • The story of a grassroots resistance mounted against the Indian government to protest exploitative farm laws.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The surrogate rallies are also designed to snare grassroots enthusiasm and boost volunteer engagement to turn out the vote, per the official.
    — Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
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grass roots

2 of 2 noun
  • Barrett is a favorite of the grass roots and would do the most to fire up the base.
    — Jan Crawford, CBS News, 2 July 2018
  • Another part of the growth plan is more grass roots, which Mehta said will take time.
    — Schuyler Dixon, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
  • Grubs feed on the grass roots and chinch bugs feed on the grass blades, which can cause sections of the lawn to die out and look like drought damage.
    — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Human rights groups said the arrests were meant to send a message: Reforms would come from the top, not from the grass roots.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The vast majority of entrepreneurs still work at the grass roots.
    — Elizabeth MacBride, Fortune, 2 May 2021
  • It’s the definition of grass roots, and that’s what draws Marc back every year.
    — cleveland, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Still, there is annoyance with the praise among the Democratic grass roots.
    — Joshua Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2018
  • Though Berkeley was her girlhood home, Harris was not a politician who came up from the grass roots.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Grass leaves grow much more slowly as the weather cools, but the grass roots and rhizomes continue to grow strong.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2019
  • With grass roots activism increasing over the years, Earth Day has since gone global.
    — Lauren Sloss, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Grass leaves grow much more slowly as the weather turns cool, but the grass roots and rhizomes continue to grow quickly.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2018
  • At the root of the problem was a difference in how the grass roots of each party participated.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Nov. 2022
  • World spoke with the 31-year-old five-time Ivy League champion about his grass roots organizing, and what’s next.
    — New York Times, 6 June 2021
  • Growing grass roots can also loosen the soil, and with rain and irrigation, help fill in the depressions.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Jan. 2022
  • But now a grass roots team of staff at Arecibo, together with telescope users, have other ideas.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • Among the many anonymous jobs at the grass roots of American democracy, the county attorney is one of the most anonymous of all.
    — Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Adult beetles feed on foliage, flowers and fruit of many plants (see the list below) while their offspring feed mostly on grass roots.
    — Betty Cahill, The Know, 23 June 2020
  • They are found an inch underground eating grass roots and creating brown spots in lawns.
    — Boston.com Real Estate, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Readers will wish that Dovere hadn’t moved so quickly away from the grass roots that coalesced to stop the Trump juggernaut.
    — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
  • More water over shorter periods of time doesn’t allow the water to get deep into the soil where the tree roots are and most of the water gets taken up by the grass roots.
    — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2019
  • How about instead putting $100k into a grass roots effort to change the political power in this state.
    — cleveland, 21 July 2022
  • But this grass roots ethos was impossible to sustain during the AIDS crisis.
    — James Estrin Liam Stack, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • If the talks succeed and the parties’ grass roots endorse the resulting coalition agreement—a lengthy and detailed policy road map for the next four years—Ms.
    — Andrea Thomas, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
  • So a grass roots reaction to the growing robotics cluster emerged; groups rallied to support and grow it.
    — Kathleen Gallagher, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
  • People line up by the hundreds for breakfast and an evening meal provided by grass roots aid groups like Team Brownsville, as well as churches from Matamoros and Texas.
    — ExpressNews.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • Instead, our grass roots researchers, teachers and preachers should be center stage.
    — al, 28 May 2020
  • But the grass roots is energized about election fraud, and the power of the state’s new voting law to help Republicans should not be discounted.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Having won 10 of the last 14 elections in Israel, Likud is the most stable, powerful and only grass roots party in Israel.
    — Aaron David Miller, Time, 13 May 2020
  • The Rainbow Coalition notion really happened at the grass roots.
    — Vinson Cunningham, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Aerate and top dress your lawn now to address soil compaction and to bring the grass roots in contact with organic material.
    — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2021

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