How to Use grassroots in a Sentence

grassroots

1 of 2 adjective
Definition of grassrootsnext
  • What made the difference was the grassroots movement on the other side.
    — Tom Steyer, Fortune, 28 May 2024
  • Such grassroots economic movements have a tenuous record of success.
    — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2024
  • According to the campaign, Harris raised a record $50 million in a single day via grassroots donations.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 22 July 2024
  • That film, which Shores based on his own coming-out experience, became a grassroots success in the early 2000s.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 July 2024
  • There are ongoing grassroots efforts in Vermont to increase voter participation among green-card holders, refugees and asylum-seekers.
    — Mikaela Lefrak, NPR, 4 May 2024
  • Nevertheless, Chainalysis ranked India highest in grassroots adoption last year.
    — Brady Dale, Axios, 18 July 2024
  • Indeed, much of the work with girls is being done at the grassroots level.
    — Anne M. Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • This is a grassroots campaign — Vivek is not beholden to the donor class to fund his campaign.
    — Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner, 20 July 2023
  • Maybe the return to grassroots events and playing for each other is what success could mean.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 June 2024
  • 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
  • Others strictly work at the grassroots level, fighting the powers that be.
    — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Social movements such as the SPA are often based on grassroots activism.
    — Justin Lynch, CNN, 17 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Loyalty is earned, and the Fountain has one of the most faithful audiences in town, thanks in no small measure to Sachs’ grassroots leadership.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The last five or six years saw Chappel involved in grassroots community work, his daughter said.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2023
  • His campaign had worked on building a grassroots effort, and the former President had held large rallies.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Science for the People is a grassroots organization with a chapter in New Haven.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The two are part of a grassroots group of volunteers that for two years has been patrolling LA’s Chinatown as a deterrent to violence.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The rallies of the past few months have been led by a grassroots group of teachers that is independent from the unions, which do not have the power to authorize such demonstrations, Jang said.
    — John Yoon, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Governors for six decades have tried to build this project in some form or another and been beaten back by grassroots activists or state voters.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • The rallies of the past few months have been led by a grassroots group of teachers that is independent from the unions, which do not have the power to authorize such demonstrations, Mr. Jang said.
    — John Yoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
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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
  • 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
  • But much of the grass roots efforts in the U.S. are being driven by Turkish and Syrian communities who still maintain close ties to their homeland.
    — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023

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