grub

The beds and food bowls are gone; the floor where they always left messes after devouring the grub I made them is eerily clean.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

He replied "grub" when asked about Britain's disgraced former prince Andrew, and "winner" at the mention of Melbourne-born Formula One driver Oscar Piastri.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

How did a recherché, quasi-French dish leave the skillful hands of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved cooks and wind up being popular grub for millions of today’s cooks and consumers, white and—emphatically—black?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Or was it a food stall dishing out free grub?

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026

Use of animal systemics has concentrated chiefly on control of the cattle grub, a damaging parasite of livestock.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Their larvae, called grubs, often feast on the organic matter in compost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

But there’s a worse problem: grubs, the larvae of flies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

She uses it to tap fatefully on trees and listen for the tiny movements of tasty grubs within, which she then extracts using those same Nosferatu phalanges.

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

Rant to the crows who dig for grubs and leave a muddy mess on the sidewalk.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

I watched them eating dandy grass and green grubs.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

Prized ancient vineyards across France are being grubbed up.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024

Throughout Europe, in California and Chile, Australia and South Africa, old vineyards have been grubbed up and replaced, either with newer vineyards that were more productive or with grapes deemed more in demand.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022

This summer, the Matinicus Rock team grubbed a 32-year-old puffin — one of the original birds in Project Puffin, brought down from Newfoundland as a chick and raised on Seal Island.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2022

It was straight, just short of a length, and it grubbed hideously to clean Yuvraj up.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2012

I couldn’t think at first what would make the sort of light I needed, then recollected a clump of bear grass that Mama’d recently grubbed out, where she wanted to start a new fall garden.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

We have to ask ourselves as a society: Do we want college to be a place of intellectual growth or a performative exercise in grade grubbing?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

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

I don't care if the money grubbing estates agree to make changes to appease current trends or appetites.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 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