How do you use the word "grub" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "grub" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "grub": I can't believe how hard it is to find decent grub around here. I'm going to get some grub and I'll be back.

Grub Meaning

/ɡɹʌb/

Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAn insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle.

nounFood.

Sentence Examples

I can't believe how hard it is to find decent grub around here.

I'm going to get some grub and I'll be back.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

sponge bum chow

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The gardener found a fat ____ while digging in the soil for planting.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The hikers were hungry after their long trek, so they were happy to find some simple ____ at the campsite.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English grubben, grobben, from Old English *grubbian, from Proto-West Germanic *grubb-, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Middle Dutch grobben (“to scrape, scramble, grab”), Old High German grubilōn (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”) (see *grabaną). The noun sense of "larva" is from Middle English grub, grubbe, grobbe, crubbe and may derive from the notion of "digging insect" from the verb above, or from the uncertainly related Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). Compare West Frisian krobbe (“beetle”). The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub (“drink”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

""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:

"John Romane, a short clownish grub, would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him." — 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:

"They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin." — 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter:

"Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers." — [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:

"“[…] John dear, we must give this little fellow his supper, you know.” “Of course we must, my darling.” “He has been grubbing and grubbing at school,” said Bella, looking at her father’s hand and lightly slapping it, “till he’s not fit to be seen. O what a grubby child!”" — 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “Concerning the Mendicant’s Bride”, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, 4th book (A Turning), page 202:

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