scrub

Example Sentences

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It then offered to scrub any trace of AI for a fee.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Field voles, hedgehogs and other ground‑nesting species rely on dense vegetation, leaf piles and scrub for shelter during the colder months.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

Jody Baxter lives with his parents on a subsistence farm in the Florida scrub.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

The dedicated staff introduced us to the elephant we’d be bathing, allowing us to each scrub a quarter of the animal before rinsing clean.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026

As soon as she saw him come up the alley, she would pick up a basket of mending, or scrub the pots, or reorganize the canned goods on the shelves of the kitchen area.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago