grub

The gilded grub became something of a sensation at this year’s Formula One Miami Grand Prix and Miami Open tennis tournament, starring in countless social media videos and selling out at both events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

Foodies will be able to buy hot and cold grub during the event.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

Anyhow Mis’ Turner got de best ole grub in town.”

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

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

A: When the lawn is looking bad, it may be tempting to look for something to kill — fungus, grubs, burrowing animals — but the most likely source of the problem is your irrigation system.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

His eyes were wide and owlish, his lips working like pale grubs.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Prized ancient vineyards across France are being grubbed up.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024

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

“The natural underwood has been grubbed up,” Olmsted wrote at the time, “the trees, to a height of 10 to 15 feet, trimmed to bare poles.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2016

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

After much exhausting digging, he grubbed up four more, ate two, and stuffed two in his jerkin for later.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

When the rail authority bought the farms surrounding their home, about 50 miles south of Fresno, it let the crops die without grubbing the fields, the source of the pest problem, say the couple.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2021

There was a lot of greedy grubbing for grants.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2020

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

You couldn’t expect a well-known musician to go grubbing behind a garbage can.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey