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

I fear all our bushes are so large that there is nothing which we are at all likely to grub up.

From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by Marchant, James

We will grub up a few roots; perhaps Mrs. Charlton would like them for her wild garden shrubbery.

From Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by Houghton, W. (William)

Here they grub up larches and spruces to plant cedars.

From Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses by Cozzens, Frederic S.