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How to use grub in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun, verb

Grub means an insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle. Example: “He grubbed along on foraged berries and nuts.”

Examples of grub by meaning

nounFood.

  • "The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs, but we keep finding dumps of grub in the forest."1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 298

verbTo dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.

  • to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge

More sentences with grub

  • He grubbed along on foraged berries and nuts.From the entry grub along
  • They are very active beneficial animals feeding on worms, soil grubs, etc., and thus harmless creatures.2016, T. W. Sanders, Garden Foes - Part I - Flower Foes, Read Books Limited. From the entry millepede
  • How ‘foodstagramming’ has changed the way we deal with our grub writes James P.2016 November 9, James P. Hall, “Bringing our food into focus”, in Vancouver Sun, page C7. From the entry foodstagramming
  • Now that I've got some grub in my stomach I guess I can stand it.2015, L. M. Montgomery, Rainbow Valley, page 50. From the entry take one's medicine
  • Everybody decided what they were going to bring so we had an even balance of grub.2009, thornbird [username], “Do you have a Christmas fuddle at your workplace?”, in Toluna, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2021. From the entry fuddle
  • Two significant resources requiring special tools were tree grubs and wild honey or 'sugarbag'.1996, Records of the South Australian Museum, volumes 29-30, page 71. From the entry sugarbag
  • Letting your chooks clean the compost of curl grubs will make it fairly safe to put on the garden.2025 June 7, The Australian Weekend Magazine, Australia, page 45, column 1. From the entry chook
  • Like memorizing dates when we could be learning about black holes in space or the life cycle of a grub bug.2013, Katy Kelly, Melonhead and the We-Fix-It Company, New York, NY: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry oversit
  • Twenty dollars between the three of us wasn't a lot, but it was walk-around money for grub and cigarettes.2012, James E. Jones, Money Thief, page 43. From the entry walk-around money
  • "There aint a gaum of grub to be found nowheres.1990, Donald Harington, The Cockroaches of Stay More, →ISBN, page 191. From the entry gaum
  • Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax. From the entry way
  • “Those rotten Huns have been hocussing our grub.”1916, Percy F. Westerman, chapter 3, in Rounding Up the Raider, London: Blackie & Son. From the entry hocus
  • Fresh grub to-night: no more ‘Russian Kromeskis’ and ‘Fanny Adams’!”1916, Bartimeus [pseudonym; Sir Lewis Ritchie], Naval Occasions, and Some Traits of the Sailor-man, Edinburgh and London: William…. From the entry kromesky
  • At last we find some grub.2015, Donald E. Graves, Blood and Steel 3: The Wehrmacht Archive: The Ardennes Offensive, December 1944 to January 1945, Barnsley, South…. From the entry wolve down
  • Their fellow diners, like their ketchupped grub, were appropriately dashed and splattered with paint and plaster, reading their Suns and Daily Mirror.2009, David Silverman, Twinkle, page 4. From the entry ketchup
  • He understands that the best food writing is not so much about how the grub is, but about who’s eating it and why.1994 February 6, Karen Stabiner, “Food as Social History: JAMES BEARD, By Robert Clark (HarperCollins: $27.50, 357 pp.)”, in Los Angeles…. From the entry food writing
  • He prised a skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons.1977, Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command. From the entry skep
  • In our account of the mason-wasps, we have referred to the destruction of their grubs by the interposition of the ruby-tails or cuckoo-wasps.1916, Edward Step, Marvels of Insect Life: A Popular Account of Structure and Habit, page 470. From the entry cuckoo wasp
  • He rooted in the ground for pale grubs and tore at bee trees for honey and ate huckleberries by the bushful and was happy and strong.2019, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain. From the entry bushful
  • He saw a spur-winged plover grubbing on a little mudberg and his eyes told him the mudberg moved when the bird screeched, flew, became a mote.2013, Jonathan Meades, Pompey, →ISBN. From the entry -berg
  • Each contained a long, wide, solid oak table around which all who could find a space the width of his body would mouth his brown-bag grub from home.1998, Marvin K. Rubin, Word of Mouth: A Manhattan Dentist Tells All-- (well, Almost), page 77. From the entry mouth
  • The other potation was a juice made from grapes, pears and banana, drunk with pleasure at that greatest of rarities: a restaurant featuring healthy grub that actually tastes good.1997 January 12, Richard Ehrlich, “Drink: Richard Ehrlich’s beverage report”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN…. From the entry potation
  • After giving them a feed and potlaching some grub for their back trip, we paid the Indians off, after making arrangements with them to return at a certain date.1908 February, F. M. Kelly, “Over the Backbone of Vancouver Island”, in Frank H. Mayer, editor, Western Field: The Sportsman’s Magazine of…. From the entry potlatch
  • Sunshine ranks high in the island's greates burger debate, while the chicken egg rolls with mango chutney and jerk mayo and fabulous fish tacos elevate pub grub to an art.2016, Fodor's Essential Caribbean, Fodor's Travel, →ISBN. From the entry jerk

Meaning of grub

  1. noun An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle.
  2. noun Food.
  3. noun A dirty person.

Full definition of grub

Questions about grub in a sentence

How do you use grub in a sentence?
Grub is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He grubbed along on foraged berries and nuts.”
What is a short sentence with grub?
“At last we find some grub.”
What does grub mean?
Grub means an insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle.

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