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

In preparing the ground for the nurseries, break it up properly, grub up all the small stumps, dig out the roots, and carefully remove them with the hand.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

Why people should want to grub up every rare and beautiful thing they find in the country to plant in their miserable town gardens, I can't imagine.

From Bosom Friends A Seaside Story by Brazil, Angela

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