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    Use "grub" in a sentence

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    grub


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    1. “Quick I’m going to open three cans of apricot jam and throw them down the trench when these shit house flies descend on them shovel your grub down before they get back


    2. ” You could almost see the saliva running down his chin at the thought of decent grub and a lot more of the lads thought about the same thing as well as their loved ones and so the wagon went quite


    3. This was serious grub and needed their full attention


    4. Soffen's greeting dragged Grey back to the present and he carefully put the half-eaten grub to one side so he could finish it later


    5. Hello! Here’s our grub,” he intoned majestically


    6. “You look lovely, Elizabeth,” I said, toying with my grub, because the nearby guests were making forays as a good guest should, attempting to engage in conversation with their neighbours


    7. grub, I’ll spend the rest of the night here


    8. Skyscrapers of grub and vittles, where the visual impression was far more important than the flavour


    9. Quickly he whacked open a can of cat grub, tossing the lid and can into the garbage receptacle


    10. One particular pub grub he remembered fondly was saveloys with tomato ketchup sauce, which would be set out in a large stainless bowl placed on the bar

    11. There was no thistle, no grub or bush to leave by his side in memory of the soil


    12. " He said, passing on the grub


    13. There was no way that Randal was at the Big Burger for the break dance contest, I’d bet he was just coincidentally there to grub on down


    14. Randal grabbed his bag of grub, meandered through the crowd, and made his way to his daddy’s BMW that was filled with a bunch of older kids that were wearing golf shirts


    15. He had seen that his gal Muffy was already in line to order grub


    16. “We can’t let you go without a bit of grub inside you,” he said


    17. because the money he managed to grub running out, only lasted for so long


    18. the caged animals were eating slop and grub


    19. While getting some grub, I recalled that Dave mentioned an alternate design for the lottery program


    20. I didn’t bother to grub out the roots

    21. Lay her egg and the grub would eat the spider


    22. - Making such a big deal out of what is simply beer and grub


    23. As we dug into our grub, Bob Barker playfully nipped at the old man’s shoelaces


    24. She scraped up some earth, squashed a grub, and ate it


    25. The grub is not bad, but I hanker after


    26. In fact, I distinctly remembered reading in Gary Oldenhammers' Scrounging for Grub in 11 Trillion Solar Systems: “Important! If the vast amount of pointless energy stored in even a single investment banker can fuel your spaceship, it can surely provide you with necessary sustenance in a pinch


    27. “So you scored some grub for our hunted friends?”


    28. particular grub when it said, “Please don’t eat me


    29. grub just next door


    30. quickly grabbed the grub with one of his feet, passed it to his mouth and

    31. grab the original grub when it said, “Please don’t eat me


    32. plumper grub in the hole just above me


    33. then hopped up and quickly grabbed that grub with one of its feet


    34. ” He then jumped down to the lower grub


    35. not being quite as hungry anymore, the bird paused and this grub had time


    36. grub said, “In that case, the grub above me is scrawny, but very tasty


    37. this story, I said, “I guess the first grub was going to get what he dished


    38. One of the crew-member whispers, ”I sure hope they don’t have roaches in the grub


    39. “What was that, you grub? I’m afraid we didn’t hear you


    40. It’s late, I know, but I know that son of a grub can’t sleep when there’s profit to sniff out

    41. That grub Kerry talking to himself


    42. We moor the boat on the shore, climb up a small hill, and, sitting at the base of a boulder, get out our grub


    43. `I had a drink the other night with a butcher bloke what used to serve this parson with meat, and we was talkin' about what a strange sort of death it was, but 'e said 'e wasn't at all surprised to 'ear of it; the only thing as 'e wondered at was that the man didn't blow up long ago, considerin' the amount of grub as 'e used to make away with


    44. On some jobs, if the `coddy' happened to be a decent sort, they posted a sentry to look out for Hunter or Rushton while the others knocked off for a few minutes to snatch a mouthful of grub; but it was not safe always to do this, for there was often some crawling sneak with an ambition to become a `coddy' who would not scruple to curry favour with Misery by reporting the crime


    45. ' You bet he will, as long as there's any grub or warmth going, but surely we're not going to have the warren overrun with mice and -- and stag beetles, are we?"


    46. 'I want some grub, I do,' he said, in that rather common way he had of speaking


    47. He walked among them, listening to their stories, marveling at how they savored the mess hall grub, watching them tear up over photographs of wives and steady girls who, they hoped, hadn’t given them up for dead


    48. The upper half of each turnip had been eaten off by the live-stock, and it was the business of the two women to grub up the lower or earthy half of the root with a hooked fork called a hacker, that it might be eaten also


    49. Smjagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and -- taters


    50. He later got a Pension of Lord Granville, who pitied him, but still he remain’d a struggling Grub Street Hack, and ne’er free from Want his whole Life long










    1. Farid walked over to him, stood there for a while, looking into his eyes and then suddenly grubbed Atlai


    2. Murad grubbed two bags at once, hundred pounds each, put them both on his shoulders without evident


    3. was so overwhelming I jumped out of the counter and yelling from the top of my lungs grubbed my


    4. He grubbed his victim


    5. three or four grubbed out pieces, as yet unwashed, but with a


    6. She even took the lid off the toilet tank and grubbed around in the rusty water to see if he'd wrapped a package in plastic and hidden it there


    7. being grubbed up by wild boars, or the like, but to stop the


    8. gathered here and there an herb, or grubbed up a root, and put


    9. I grubbed in my pocket and took out the picture of Cal with Scott Joplin except Joplin's head was still missing


    10. " Constance grubbed in her purse and took out a quarter and tossed it in the air

    1. Through it all the boy matured into a quiet but strong thirteen year old who was never ashamed to scratch the dirt out from under his fingernails after grubbing up the last of the late potatoes


    2. his fingernails after grubbing up the last of the late potatoes


    3. He wasn’t an idealist, only a money grubbing slug that had no interest in their goal other than lining his own pockets


    4. Grubbing one of them


    5. after taking a shower and grubbing couple of slices of pizza for bite to eat, he called a cab


    6. "Because," responded Xygliper, "it appears there weren't enough money grubbing traitors to make a full complement for both of these destroyers


    7. grubbing for insects, eating leaves and bark,


    8. He could do the actual grubbing in the


    9. Religious fanaticism, religious cults, religious cultures became a tiny minority in a sea of equals all grubbing to rise in the world as best they could and as fast as they could


    10. He made it allowable for greedy cheap money grubbing robber barons to insist that their employees work all twelve days before christmas, instead of having them all off as a holy holiday

    11. The book is a race for gold: it is a grubbing, greedy story of slavering human filth; fighting each other, betraying each other, and killing each other over gold and gems and wealth


    12. "We go grubbing along day after day, without a bit of change, and very little fun


    13. He lowered himself down on his knees slowly and went on grubbing with his fingers with industrious patiencetill he uncovered one of the boxes


    14. Then she could walk haughtily among the huts and spit at the slaves; then she need never think of grubbing in the earth or bearing strong black children; then she would have red cloth to wear, and a silver chain to go about her neck


    1. If you live in an environment where there are lots of gophers bugs, larvae, grubs, spiders, and centipedes, you should start thinking in terms of protecting your plants


    2. Soap Drenching: You can check for grubs by placing a can that has be


    3. , see if any grubs have come to the surface


    4. These grubs can be dealt with, by using beneficial nematodes


    5. The Grubs of these are a very serious threat


    6. I could see that thousands of maggots were busily feeding on what was left of two dead sheep, the heaving mass over-flowing onto the floor as the mound of glistening grubs continuously fought each other for a space to eat


    7. And rock grubs


    8. I smelled deer and wolf, even bears and warned him away from the big brown beast that was busily uprooting tree stumps in search of grubs


    9. They stopped to watch birds building nests and when they passed by a stand of spruce they saw two black bears searching for grubs in an old tree


    10. was not a “happy chappie” about this as he felt he had been cheated, because the packet of lollies had grubs in them! But to me that was no excuse! So back to the stores the kids were marched by their Mums and each one had to explain just what he had done

    11. (complete with grubs) !


    12. He found a little food – mainly worms and grubs, which diet was one of the main reasons he had preferred to go off on his travels in the first place – and they prepared to leave


    13. They’re the witchetty grubs the Aboriginals eat


    14. At first Galinda simply lived wild in the forest bordering the village, foraging nuts and berries and grubs and sheltering in caves or hollows, but eventually she built a large hovel of tree trunks and slabs of peat torn from the nearby bog


    15. There were a lot grubs imbedded into the


    16. Silas felt like he could do with an overturned rock of grubs and another cup of coffee


    17. Dirty, filthy, grubs


    18. There is a wide selection of baits for example, grubs, jigs, and plastic worms


    19. Grubs may be employed in clear water conditions like highland reservoirs where there is no cover for fishes


    20. Nevertheless, Sancho the Good, mount thy beast and come along with me, for God, who provides for all things, will not fail us (more especially when we are so active in his service as we are), since he fails not the midges of the air, nor the grubs of the earth, nor the tadpoles of the water, and is so merciful that he maketh his sun to rise on the good and on the evil, and sendeth rain on the unjust and on the just

    21. What a doleful night! How anxious, how dismal, how long! There was an inhospitable smell in the room, of cold soot and hot dust; and, as I looked up into the corners of the tester over my head, I thought what a number of blue-bottle flies from the butchers', and earwigs from the market, and grubs from the country, must be holding on up there, lying by for next summer


    22. The last of the swallows had gone long ago, and now the black outlines of rooks could be seen flying around the plowed fields looking for grubs


    23. It will be past its best, with little food value other than the grubs or worms upon it


    24. Birds generally feed in older trees where there is some decay and plenty of grubs


    25. AVOID: Grubs found on the underside of leaves—they often secrete poisonous fluids


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    Synonyms for "grub"

    grub chow chuck eats bum cadge mooch sponge meal victuals spread comestibles maggot caterpillar dig up dig out burrow delve excavate uproot

    "grub" definitions

    informal terms for a meal


    a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects


    ask for and get free; be a parasite


    search about busily