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

Why do we grub up the bramble-bushes in our fields?

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville

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)

We’ve hung our grub up so nothing can get hold of it.

From The Boy Scouts of Lenox by Webster, Frank V.