grub up
Example Sentences
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Taylor held the pale, wriggling grub up to Adina’s face.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
“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
Go down an' help him tote th' grub up.
From Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford
But if I did, I have no doubt she would take up a hoe or a watering-pot, and proceed to do some very unghostlike deed—perhaps, grub up weeds.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
"If I grub up wild land, I shall hold it three years for pay."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
