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Example sentences for "grub"

Lexicographically close words:
grownups; grows; growth; growths; groyne; grubbed; grubber; grubbing; grubby; grubs
  1. I liked that, for I loved the woods ever since I was a boy, when I used to go off by myself and stay days and nights with nothin' but a tin can o' grub and a blanket.

  2. You'll go back to your work, and if there's anything you want in the way of grub or supplies send here for it and you shall have it.

  3. He niver come out, but had his grub sent him.

  4. I provide the grub and the boat and whatever else is needed, and the sailorman provides the lore of the sea.

  5. I'll see to the boat and grub and cooking outfit--and I think I can promise you a bit of adventure.

  6. In a few seconds he dragged forth a fat, cream-coloured grub about an inch and a half in length, with a copper-coloured head.

  7. The grub twisted and lashed about, but was torn apart and eaten on the spot.

  8. From time to time he would scent, through perhaps a quarter-inch of earth, a worm or a grub ahead of him.

  9. What'd ther Lord give us teeth fer if grub is ter melt in ther mouth?

  10. All right; come over ter ther camp an' stay overnight, an' fill yer pale American hides with ther best grub what ever wuz cooked on ther range.

  11. I hed some grub in my war bag, an' I fed an' watered him.

  12. Not until some one goes out to the nearest restaurant and orders up a stack of grub for Scrub and me.

  13. But when all the grub is done with, they'll get moderately quiet again.

  14. But we knew that Breuger was goin' to fix our grub for quite a spell and keepin' him in a good humor was a wise move.

  15. He couldn't git grub here now for no money--savvy?

  16. I can see you don't git another snack of grub in here, my friend," retorted Parky, adding a number of oaths.

  17. You don't get another bite of grub in this shack, nor another look at the little boy, if you don't come ahead and do your share.

  18. Lots of the boys needs a good fair warnin' when they're goin' to tackle cookin' grub for a Christmas dinner.

  19. The history of all nations seem to indicate successive ages of grub and butterfly-life; certainly Rome has been a grub long enough.

  20. The historians found fine gold in the bishops' registers, when once they persuaded themselves that it was not beneath their dignity to grub there.

  21. I don't believe the grub is going to be so bad, after all.

  22. I don't see anything the matter with such grub as that!

  23. Percy went out after him, and called down the staircase to Walker, "Walker, give Mr Scarfe a glass of wine and some grub before he goes.

  24. Walker had better put up a chair-bed in the dressing-room for Jeff, and Jeff and he (Percy) could have their grub together.

  25. Hurrah--bring Julius too--and I'll get some grub to take.

  26. Chlordane, which has a very important use in connection with these insects in the grub stage, is not recommended above ground; it is too brief in its action.

  27. Chemical control in the grub stage:~ In New York we suggest that on a home property the more valuable sections of permanent lawn be grub-proofed with chemicals as soon as there are 5 to 10 grubs to the square foot.

  28. In our survey areas grub populations sometimes seem to drop rapidly in May, when the birds are feeding their nestlings.

  29. When a grub dies, it multiplies the number of spores up to many millions.

  30. He took a couple of furnished rooms in Salisbury Street off the Strand, a very Grub Street for a man of fashion, and began to work at journalism while getting together a book of poems for publication.

  31. But if you manage to see the fairies, you may ask whatever you like of them.

  32. But she could only go a very little way with her burden; presently she had to return and lay him down again on his bed of leaves.

  33. That night the hunter lay sleepless on his bed, wishing for the world to end; but in the crib by his side the two children lay in a sound slumber.

  34. And all the time as they played he seemed to see the white doe leaping before him in the sunlight.

  35. The Princess's memory sang to her of him in a thousand tunes, like woodland birds carolling; but it was within the cage which men call a crown that her thoughts moved, fluttering to be out of it and free.

  36. Suddenly the hunter knew all he had done.

  37. Is this beast of a grub of a boy thinking to make himself a painter and cut me out of my reputation and prosperity?

  38. Peter Griggs was out that way with a load of grub for one o' Harley's camps, this very afternoon, and it was just burnin' good when he come to it.

  39. From the nearer camp he would have to portage a lot of grub across a half mile of bad trail and take it up, by canoe, to his shack on the headwaters of Dan's River.

  40. There's plenty of grub in this camp, and every durn ounce of it is fit for anybody to eat.

  41. So he brings me around and shows me a little brigantine, he'd chartered, and with three dusky lads for a crew and some grub and two big chests on her quarter-deck we sail out.

  42. I'll bring over some grub to keep it company.

  43. I can take this rope and tie one end to the post and let myself down to that little room where there's grub enough to last a long siege, where there's bedding and common luxuries, as tobacco and the like.

  44. Not a word can we get out of him, or a bite of grub into him.

  45. We lived in a kind of a camp, but I was too little to know where they got the grub to feed us with.

  46. We left de furniture and only took grub and tools and bedding and clothes, 'cause they wasn't very big wagons and was only single-yoke.

  47. She knowed dat old Master would be mad and she'd be punished so she got some grub and her bonnet and she lit out.

  48. They give us grub and clothes to the Negroes at that place.

  49. When he git close to de house he holler to git out de way 'cause dey gwine be a big fight, and old Master start rapping wid his cane and yelling to git some grub and blankets in de wagon right now!

  50. Under the sod of the mowing land had burrowed the white grub of the June-bugs.

  51. They ride up trail to the flat rock sometimes bringing me grub and papers.

  52. In ten minutes the usual call of "grub pile" rang out across the river.

  53. Blake wants him to rustle the grub lively.

  54. Then I can shoot him and get square for all these years of imitation grub what he's handed out to me!

  55. Tell Lee Lung to rustle the grub lively--I'll be there right after you.

  56. We've got enough grub for today and tomorrow if we go light on it.

  57. These Injuns need every bit of fur they can trap to buy grub and clothes with.

  58. We're short of grub and we thought that if we could get supplies from you it would save us a trip clear to Fort Norman.

  59. But every tam de leetle moon com' I tak' som' mor' grub to de cache.

  60. Merican Joe watched in silence as Connie made the remaining grub into a pack.

  61. The boy shook his head, and reluctantly Ton-Kan obeyed, but not without a longing look toward the grub pack.

  62. He didn't have much of a pack, just a sleeping bag and a couple of day's grub rolled up in it.

  63. There was grub on it that hadn't been there more than a month at the most.

  64. Also, that when they crossed the ridge he could have all the grub he wanted, and with that the Indian had to content himself.

  65. When they get hooch, they pay a big price--and they pay it in grub and clothes that their women and children need!

  66. And the grub is fresh--it hasn't been there more than a month.

  67. If we had grub enough I'd stay right here till I found out where that yell comes from.

  68. When there is nothing left to eat inside the skin of its pill, the grub makes a hole in it and goes underground.

  69. But there is no fear of this danger: the knowledge of the bit of an intestine is too sound in things of the future for the grub to neglect the formality of keeping its head to the door.

  70. In this case, the path traced by the grub has so regular a curve that you feel inclined to subject the work to geometrical measurement.

  71. Twenty or more of them batten on the grub together.

  72. The grub that does not eat its fill remains small, while the one that gluts itself grows fat.

  73. But reasons of convenience whereof the grub is the sole judge, reasons dictated perhaps by weight, cause the vertical to precede the horizontal position.

  74. Observe that the jar is absolutely closed behind, without the smallest waste-pipe by which the physiological needs from which the grub is certainly not immune can be relieved.

  75. We must not forget the smear of rancid butter, which serves to keep off the Mosquito and reminds us of the unguent employed by the grub that dreads the Tachina.

  76. Under its thick mantle of ordure the grub of the Lily-beetle escapes the troubles so fatal to its cousin of the asparagus.

  77. But they was two hundred miners in there needin' grub if they wintered, an' we had the grub.

  78. They ain't enough grub to turn back, an' we'll be there to-morrow.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grub" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accumulate; amass; assemble; beat; bore; bread; burrow; caterpillar; chuck; collect; comb; comestibles; cull; delve; dig; dike; dredge; drill; drive; drudge; excavate; fag; feed; food; furrow; gather; glean; gouge; grind; groove; grub; hack; hammer; hireling; larva; lour; lower; maggot; meal; meat; mercenary; mine; moil; muck; nurture; nymph; peg; pick; plod; pluck; plug; provender; quarry; ransack; refreshment; scoff; scoop; scour; scrape; scratch; search; shovel; sink; slave; spade; sustenance; toil; travail; trench; trough; tuck; tunnel; viands; victuals