How to Use grub in a Sentence

grub

1 of 2 verb

• Everyone was grubbing for whatever food they could find.
• In an interview with People, the 48-year-old opened up about her go-to grub.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 3 May 2019
• Pink grubs fished with 1/32 -ounce dartheads are working best.
  — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 3 July 2017
• Eleven-year-old Nan works with a gang of other kids her age, and younger, as a chimney sweep for a money-grubbing sadist named Wilkie Crudd.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• Stanley’s stainless-steel, double-wall insulated food jar keeps grub hot for up to 12 hours.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 11 June 2018
• Jones and her son were roundly cast as villains -- and anyone who supported them, as a fool who'd been duped by the money-grubbing mother plying her child's pain for profit.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 12 Dec. 2017
• The Supreme Court’s landmark 1992 Quill decision protects small businesses across the country from tax-grubbing politicians across the country.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2018
• This is not to say that all doctors are money-grubbing slime; on the contrary, most doctors are conscientious and genuinely try to do right by their patients.
  — Danielle Ofri, Slate Magazine, 2 Aug. 2017
• As mom-in-chief, Michelle Obama could correct decades-long stereotypes of black women as neglectful parents and money-grubbing welfare queens.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• For many Pakistanis, his reputation for personal probity sets him apart from his money-grubbing peers.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• The amateur hunters and the independent and commercial hunters aren’t all venal, money-grubbing opportunists.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2018
• The consensus clearly is that the Chargers’ move to L.A. is a moronic, misguided and desperate decision doomed to result in calamitous failure sure to embarrass the league and its money-grubbing owners.
  — Jeff Miller, Orange County Register, 12 Jan. 2017
• Rosen has made a habit of being outspoken, criticizing a host of topics, including President Trump with a profane bandanna draped over a hat and the money-grubbing nature of college athletics.
  — Ben Bolch, latimes.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• Deliciously twisty and intermittently, startlingly violent, this noirish thriller displays Harrison’s exuberance for high-stakes New York schemers — plundering financiers, money-grubbing heirs, obsessive collectors.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2017
• Everyone was grubbing for whatever food they could find.
• In an interview with People, the 48-year-old opened up about her go-to grub.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 3 May 2019
• Pink grubs fished with 1/32 -ounce dartheads are working best.
  — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 3 July 2017
• Eleven-year-old Nan works with a gang of other kids her age, and younger, as a chimney sweep for a money-grubbing sadist named Wilkie Crudd.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• Stanley’s stainless-steel, double-wall insulated food jar keeps grub hot for up to 12 hours.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 11 June 2018
• Jones and her son were roundly cast as villains -- and anyone who supported them, as a fool who'd been duped by the money-grubbing mother plying her child's pain for profit.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 12 Dec. 2017
• The Supreme Court’s landmark 1992 Quill decision protects small businesses across the country from tax-grubbing politicians across the country.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2018
• This is not to say that all doctors are money-grubbing slime; on the contrary, most doctors are conscientious and genuinely try to do right by their patients.
  — Danielle Ofri, Slate Magazine, 2 Aug. 2017
• As mom-in-chief, Michelle Obama could correct decades-long stereotypes of black women as neglectful parents and money-grubbing welfare queens.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• For many Pakistanis, his reputation for personal probity sets him apart from his money-grubbing peers.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• The amateur hunters and the independent and commercial hunters aren’t all venal, money-grubbing opportunists.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2018
• The consensus clearly is that the Chargers’ move to L.A. is a moronic, misguided and desperate decision doomed to result in calamitous failure sure to embarrass the league and its money-grubbing owners.
  — Jeff Miller, Orange County Register, 12 Jan. 2017
• Rosen has made a habit of being outspoken, criticizing a host of topics, including President Trump with a profane bandanna draped over a hat and the money-grubbing nature of college athletics.
  — Ben Bolch, latimes.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• Deliciously twisty and intermittently, startlingly violent, this noirish thriller displays Harrison’s exuberance for high-stakes New York schemers — plundering financiers, money-grubbing heirs, obsessive collectors.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2017

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grub

2 of 2 noun

• Let's go get some grub.
• Then workers make the rounds with the grub; a horse leg here, a steer head there.
  — Robert Scheer, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2023
• Crankbaits, grubs, jigs and soft plastic worms are on the list.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Half the grub went into the bear can while the rest went into a bag buried in the snow.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 9 May 2022
• True love fills you up like good grub, but bad love drains you like a tub.
  — Essence, 2 Oct. 2023
• The beetle has a one-year life cycle but spends most of its life in the soil as a grub.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2022
• And there might be ambitious others from the Pac-12 on the grub, too.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 July 2022
• Find the very best grub—a clear cut, white cedar swamp, standing corn, or a food plot—and camp out.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 11 Sep. 2020
• The bar serves cocktails, draft beers and classic pub grub.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, azcentral, 20 Dec. 2019
• Wine-driven, the place may be — the walls are stacked with bottles — but don’t discount the grub.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2022
• Coffee in the morning, some grub, beer and brews to go in the afternoon.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2021
• Don’t assume it’s a grub problem — check for grubs to make sure.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2021
• Pull out the lawn chairs, grab some local grub and enjoy the show, part of the Summer Arts in the Park series.
  — Samantha Davenport, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2021
• For some grub outside of the park, try Pierogies of Cleveland, just west in the town of Richfield.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2022
• For white perch use a 1/8-ounce jighead with a white 2 to 3-inch curlytail grub crawled along the bottom.
  — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 22 May 2021
• The FoodSaver System helps stash your grub in the freezer and stretch your dollar.
  — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
• With radar showing a lengthy delay, at least three drivers hit the road to grab some grub.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2021
• The better option might be to try to control the grub stage of the beetles that will occur next year.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 June 2021
• The grub has almost no action, and the spinner is nothing unique.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• Stanczyk likes working light jigs with grub tails along the redfish course, as well as the old stand-by: a fresh shrimp on a jig head.
  — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 2 July 2020
• Dance the night away, grab some grub and participate in goofy games on the Fountain Square stage and rink.
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 23 Dec. 2019
• Roy Boys is known for its fried chicken, but the Shaw restaurant’s parties can be as much fun as the grub.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
• Nestled in among the pub grub offerings was French onion soup.
  — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 5 Mar. 2020
• Nobody puts baby in a king cake! Time to get your gumbo grub on! Beignet, done that.
  — Karla Pope, Woman's Day, 27 Jan. 2023
• The weevil’s young (grubs) eat the roots, turning them into a stinky, liquid pool.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
• As long as the grub and grog kept comin’, and as long as everyone had a few turns gripping and ripping.
  — Michael McKnight, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
• When the eggs hatch, the larvae — which are grubs — feed on the core of the plant, leaving it vulnerable to rot from the inside out.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• Late summer and early fall is the time that grub damage is most likely to show up in lawns.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• And there is something about an open flame and the memory of sunset in the marsh that will season any grub.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 1 Jan. 2021
• There’s definitely no greasy-spoon pub grub on the menu.
  — Baz Dreisinger, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023

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