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
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Taylor held the pale, wriggling grub up to Adina’s face.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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Why do we grub up the bramble-bushes in our fields?
From The Training of a Public Speaker by Grenville Kleiser
He allows no strange dogs to prowl about the place, and grub up his buried bones.
From Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Afterward by degrees you grub up the stumps and get the clean, tilled land.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss