grub
noun
the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
am grubbing
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present progressiveof grub (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Yes, I have left my own plantation, and am grubbing out a modest and sometimes a rather precarious existence elsewhere.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various
I think it must be a bad habit, but I don't do it when I am grubbing willows.
From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson
I am grubbing away as usual, trying to get money enough to buy Mother a nice warm shawl.
From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Louisa May Alcott
I am grubbing away as usual, trying to get money enough to buy mother a nice warm shawl.
From Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists by Asa Don Dickinson
