1.   Elm trees have shallow roots.

2.   Because they have shallow roots, they hold less water in the earth and can be felled easily by storms and landslides.

3.   But because peppers have shallow roots, nitrogen moves out of reach as it leaches down in the soil, so peppers need fertilizing more often than other vegetables.

4.   Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but the Stanley Cup playoffs have exposed some shallow roots.

5.   Davidow weighed in with the view that the democratic revolution spreading across the Western Hemisphere had shallow roots.

6.   Fallen leaves are an excellent mulch for the shallow roots.

7.   Even the species which grow on the forest floors have very shallow roots.

8.   In any case water just once a week or your grass will have shallow roots.

9.   In recent decades, New Yorkers have elected two senators, Robert F. Kennedy and James Buckley, who had very shallow roots in the state.

10.   Like a desert plant, technology clings to the soil here with shallow roots, struggling to take hold, and then a wind comes and blows it away.