Grub Sentence Examples

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  • I need to grab some grub, too.

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  • Grub Street elegies on the almanac maker were hawked about London.

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  • His passion is to get people gardening and eating good grub.

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  • Examination showed that although the weevil attacked the young buds these did not drop off, but that a special growth of tissue inside the bud frequently killed the grub.

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  • Pub grub goes gourmet With a smoking ban looming and beer sales dwindling, pubs are seeking their salvation in food.

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  • My only advice is don't eat too much of the delicious grub they serve for lunch!

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  • No longer is France inexpensive, today the Euro buys little decent grub for your money.

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  • The pegs by the chalets are popular and the fish see regular helpings of grub that include hemp and pellets.

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  • The cams and spur wheel should be securely attached to the shaft, the grub screws being gently tightened as necessary.

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  • It lives in the grub of a gall-midge and it ultimately becomes changed into the usual white and fleshy hymenopterous larva.

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  • What in California are known as " flea seeds " are oak-galls made by a species of Cynips; in August they become detached from the leaves that bear them, and are caused to jump by the spasmodic movements of the grub within the thin-walled gall-cavity."

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  • The Mantispidae are remarkable among the Neuroptera for their elongate prothorax, raptorial fore-legs and hypermetamorphic life-history, the young campodeiform larva becoming transformed into a fat cruciform grub parasitic on young spiders or wasp-larvae (see Mantis-Fly).

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  • Nematodes feast upon beetle grubs, injecting a bacteria into the grub and feasting on the bacteria, which kills the larvae.

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  • Ensure you water your lawn well after applying grub killers to it, as this will ensure the product to get deep into the soil where these grubs are.

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  • Your project has been shot, you've thanked everyone and hopefully fed them well, too (hey, long breaks on a film set demand a little grub).

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  • If your former diet consisted primarily of processed foods like vending machine munchies and other on-the-go grub, try easing into a high fiber diet.

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  • Sharp; in the stag-beetle larva a series of short tubercles on the hind-leg is drawn across the serrate edge of a plate on the haunch of the intermediate legs, while in the Passalid grub the modified tip of the hind-leg acts as a scraper, being so shortened that it is useless for locomotion, but highly specialized for producing sound.

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  • After eating the contents of the egg, the larva moults and becomes a fleshy grub with short legs and with paired spiracles close to the dorsal region, so that, as it floats in and devours the honey, it obtains a supply of air.

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  • Soon after his death, while the public curiosity was strongly excited about his extraordinary character and his not less extraordinary adventures, a life of him appeared widely different from the catchpenny lives of eminent men which were then a staple article of manufacture in Grub Street.

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  • If this "royal jelly" continue to be given to the grub throughout its life, it will grow into a queen; if the ordinary mixture of honey and digested pollen be substituted, as is usually the case from the fourth day, the grub will become a worker.

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  • Mama Africa on Long street serves some good local grub.

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  • Some participating pubs will be offering good hearty classic pub grub with some special dishes cooked in ale!

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  • The Shed serves traditional pub grub in an easy, relaxing atmosphere.

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  • French food will have to battle it out with British grub and there will be a tug o war.

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  • When I finished the installation I did grub-install /dev/sda, having added the necessary lines to the grub menu to boot Windows.

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  • From pub grub to fine dining, cream teas to a la carte.

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  • To change the bulb, simply remove two tiny grub screws with a hexagonal key.

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  • The casual, family-friendly restaurant has typical sports bar grub, including cheese sticks, onion rings, burgers, sandwiches, and flatbread pizza.

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  • Such a typically "campodeiform" grub, moving actively about in pursuit of prey, is the one extreme of larval structure to be noticed among the Coleoptera.

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  • Carried to the bee's nest, it undergoes a moult, and becomes a fat-bodied grub, ready to lead a quiet life feeding on the bee's rich food-stores.

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  • Stridulating organs among beetle-larvae have been noted, especially in the wood-feeding grub of the stag-beetles (Lucanidae) and their allies the Passalidae, and in the dung-eating grubs of the dor-beetles (Geotrupes), which belong to the chafer family (Scarabaeidae).

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  • The carabid larva is an active well-armoured grub with the legs and cerci variable in length.

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  • Riley, who finds that the young larva, hatched from the egg laid on the pod, has three pairs of legs, and that these are lost after the moult that occurs when the grub has bored its way into the seed.

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  • The prey is sometimes stung in the neighbourhood of the nerve ganglia, so that it is paralysed but not killed, the grub of the fossorial wasp devouring its victim alive; but this instinct varies in perfection, and in many cases the larva flourishes equally whether its prey be killed or not.

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  • Oak-galls, for example, are broken open by the titmouse in order to obtain the grub within, and the " button-galls " of Neuroterus numismatis, Oliv., are eaten by pheasants.

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  • Thus, also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly.

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  • For example, the grub of a pea or bean beetle (Bruchus) is hatched, from the egg laid by its mother on the carpel of a leguminous flower, with three pairs of legs and spiny processes on the prothorax.

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  • These differences in larval form depend in part on the surroundings among which the larva finds itself after hatching; the active, armoured grub has to seek food for itself and to fight its own battles, while the soft, defenceless maggot is provided with abundant nourishment.

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  • In conjunction with the association mentioned above of the most highly developed imaginal with the most degraded larval structure, it indicates clearly that the active, armoured grub preceded the sluggish soft-skinned caterpillar or maggot in the evolution of the Hexapoda.

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  • Many genera of bees are represented, like most other insects, by ordinary males and females, each female constructing a nest formed of several chambers ("cells") and storing in each chamber a supply of food for the grub to be hatched from the egg that she lays therein.

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  • This is followed by a resting (pseudo-pupal) stage, and thisby two successive larval stages like the grub of a chafer.

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  • The larva is a thick white grub with a brownish head, bearing fleshy tubercles along its side.

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  • I have never so much as tasted a grub worm.

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