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
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 Fenn, George Manville
He told me you’d sure got grub up here, an’ I didn’t need to get things.
From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Cullum, Ridgwell
Afterward by degrees you grub up the stumps and get the clean, tilled land.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold
