Example Sentences

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It was a dangerous, pungent way to make a pittance, and I wonder what my Victorian sisters would think of grubbing around in the mud for the sheer joy of it.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2020

There was a lot of greedy grubbing for grants.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2020

Much of it, indeed, is conducted at ground level, with Tom grubbing for mushrooms or eating a hard-boiled egg and then strewing the shell fragments around a vegetable patch.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 22, 2018

"This isn't a statesmanlike speech, this is one of somebody grubbing around in the weeds for weak arguments and it's a very poor speech in that regard."

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2018

“We go grubbing along day after day, without a bit of change, and very little fun. We might as well be in a treadmill.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott