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
Ah, that's the stuff we used to grub up in a creek in Californy.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by Spears, John R.
He must continually grub up the stumps planted by all manner of unrevised influence.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
A gang of three men proceeded systematically to grub up the plants and collect the multitudes of water-snails that they might be examined by the expert to see if any obnoxious species were present.
From The Eye of Osiris by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
