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

When asked for a response to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, he said "grub" which drew applause from the audience.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 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

What happened, two great big black bears had busted into our grub box.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

"They do an amazing job for nature, they eat grubs in the soil, they turn over the soil, they help soils drain and hold water".

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 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

Some may overwinter as adults, others in their immature stage as grubs, caterpillars or nymphs, while others will be in the pupal stage like a chrysalis or cocoon.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

I put on some chicken livers or maybe some grubs and cast out from shore.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

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

Analysts expect a harvest of 11m-12m tonnes, one of the smallest in a generation, after many farmers grubbed up their failing, waterlogged crops and replanted fields with barley.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2013

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

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

The late George Steinbrenner would be envious of such greedy grubbing title grabbing.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2016

“Stand up straight. What’s the matter with you? Jim Bowie, those nails won’t do. You look like you’ve been grubbing in the garden. Calpurnia, take him and fix him.”

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly