grub up

Example Sentences

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“Nobody ain’t got no time tuh hold yo’ grub up in front uh yo’ face,” she told Coodemay.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

Taylor held the pale, wriggling grub up to Adina’s face.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

Afterward by degrees you grub up the stumps and get the clean, tilled land.

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold

I expect to have to live on just whatever I can shoot or grub up.

From The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)

May tip that waiter possibly, if he brings the grub up sharp.

From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Reed, Talbot Baines