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
Nor is it worth his while to grub up the old roots; for you cannot plant a new orchard where an old one has decayed.
From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Go and grub up roots with your dirty fingers! don’t dig them with a spade—it’s a machine!
From The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn
They were prospectors, out of grub, up against starving or getting a job in the foothills town below, until with their golden promises, they could again talk some sympathetic listener out of a grub stake.
From A Mountain Boyhood by Enos B. (Enos Benjamin) Comstock
