Sentence examples for grubbed out from inspiring English sources

A century ago, pioneers nurtured eucalyptus trees and grubbed out willows.

Garden habitats are being lost at a tremendous rate in our towns and cities — a hedge is grubbed out here, a drive or garden paved there, a "garden-office" built somewhere else.

Over the past few weekends, I have been slowly grubbing out a tangled mess of collapsed chain-link fence intertwined with elder hedge that once bordered my property.

He planted corn and potatoes and continued to grub out willows.

For turnings, you can work rough twine like a shoeshine rag into tight spots to grub out stubborn finish.

That month, he spent three days shucking corn for Israel Brush and nine days grubbing out willows two miles away on Mr. Townsend's land that was rented out by John Smith and Andrew Damron.

But grubbing out the trees, leaving the soil bare and scouring it vertically, without at least greatly lengthening the slope to reduce its angle, looks to me like a spectacular act of folly.

The opposite of free trade is when each person grubs out a living as a subsistence farmer or hunter.

He would head down the beach to some unlikely-looking spot and stubbornly stay there, riding marginal, inconsistent waves, rather than grub it out with the masses.

Since 1950 ,64% of England's orchards have vanished – grubbed-out to make way for more profitable crops.

As dieldrin penetrated the soil, the poisoned beetle grubs crawled out on the surface of the ground, where they attracted insectivorous birds.