Dorothy is revealed to be a vegetable from a different world, so Jack buries her he expects she will set roots and grow.

Disturbed soil tells the squirrels that something got buried, and the scent of the bulbs is most attractive before they set roots.

The new green grass and reeds had set roots in wet silty clay.

Both young artists quickly set roots in Houston.

They'd be refused if they didn't set such quick roots into one before even the first protest could be made.

The furniture looked so old it might have set roots into the floor.

The phenomenon of assimilation alongside cultural affirmation is not unlike that experienced by other ethnic groups as they set roots in this country, some experts say.

Christianity failed to set firm roots in Japan and China, where 19th-century missionaries were seen as agents of Western imperialism.

Instead, the ayuntamiento became the institution representing the interests of the local and regional oligarchical groups then setting deep roots into their territories.

In the final saying most of us seek a place to set roots and raise house trees.