Example Sentences

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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

We’re soon on our knees, grubbing in the dirt.

From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2021

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

This woman nodded to me briefly, and then called to her little boy who was grubbing with some kittens at the back.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier