Example Sentences

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"And now she is grubbing away dear knows where!" her biographer would say carelessly.

From Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Norris, Kathleen Thompson

So he ran quickly into the village and said to the parson, "O parson, some evil creature is grubbing in your turnip-field!"

From Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm by Crane, Lucy

To-day the pearl-diver is grubbing under the waves that are lapping the Sooloo Islands, the coast of Coromandel, and the shores of Algiers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various

“Well, Laura, about the only money grubbing Morty seems to be doing is grubbing money out of his father to maintain his race horse.”

From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen