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

Afterward by degrees you grub up the stumps and get the clean, tilled land.

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold

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

But if I did, I have no doubt she would take up a hoe or a watering-pot, and proceed to do some very unghostlike deed—perhaps, grub up weeds.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse