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

"I wa'n't lookin' to grub up just yet," says he.

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Ford, Sewell

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

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold

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

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville