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

"If I grub up wild land, I shall hold it three years for pay."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various

I fear all our bushes are so large that there is nothing which we are at all likely to grub up.

From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by Marchant, James

They were prospectors, out of grub, up against starving or getting a job in the foothills town below, until with their golden promises, they could again talk some sympathetic listener out of a grub stake.

From A Mountain Boyhood by Comstock, Enos B. (Enos Benjamin)