Sentence examples for scrub- from inspiring English sources

For one thing, these two mines' annual contribution would practically scrub out the savings from Australia's emissions reduction target.

I had expected desert and scrub, but instead hibiscus and bougainvillea billowed across rooftops, and orange trees dripping fruit lined the busy roads.

From a distance it appears to be little more than a cloud of dust and scrub.

If the Adani and GVK mines are developed then they easily scrub out Australia's greenhouse gas reductions based on that 5% target.

Add the carrot and potato – I scrub, rather than peel my veg – rumour has it that the best bits are lurking under the skin, so leave it on.

At face value, the landscape is all red dirt and scrub but if you observe with a stockman's eye, it changes constantly from low saltbush, to larger trees to dry lakes.

I scrub and try again.

But Mr Hun Sen's reputation does not scrub up quite so easily.In this section Goodbye clenched fist, hello sweaty palm Ceremonial time Ma the bumbler The Kamikaze election A tale of two villages Tenth out of ten ReprintsASEAN is still smarting from the debacle of its annual security forum and foreign ministers' meeting in Phnom Penh in July.

More wire is rolled out, more poison set down, scrub and trees burned and water sources appropriated.

Rather as the term Nazi caught on in English partly because of its resonance with words such as "nasty", Da'ish rolls pleasurably off Arab tongues as a close cousin of words meaning to stomp, crush, smash into, or scrub.

Some security firms now offer a "scrubbing" service that allows a site under attack to redirect traffic through the security firm's servers, which remove (scrub) the bad requests and send legitimate ones through.