1.   This may be because its members had, or could soon sink roots into, some sort of community belonging to a structured society.

2.   Planted in horizontal rows across hillsides, the grass sinks deep roots and grows into a living retaining wall that traps soil washing down the slope.

3.   And it sunk its roots deep into Southern soil.

4.   As democracy sinks its roots deeper, Afrikaner youth are being exposed to new cultures and ways of thinking.

5.   Adopting an arbitrary last name, Bunker, they began sinking roots.

6.   Cambodia is nominally at peace, but a U.N. settlement has yet to sink roots.

7.   Davenport, so immobile that she seemed to have sunk roots into the baseline, chastised herself for displaying the slow pace of a sitting duck.

8.   In fact, more and more are sinking roots in cities like Beijing, where they run food stalls, dig ditches or recycle garbage.

9.   It has roots sunk deep into the earth at the Pittsburg High football stadium.

10.   Mozart, the most adaptive plant that ever sank roots in musical soil, quickly wrapped himself around this new way of writing.