Scrub

//skɹʌb//

"Scrub" in a Sentence (27 examples)

I couldn't scrub the stain out.

As a punishment, the disgraced Greenpeace volunteer had to scrub oil from an otter's fur with his own toothbrush.

Tom asked Mary to scrub the toilet.

Where did you scrub them?

Would you scrub my back, please?

Don't use your bare hands to scrub the floor.

The stepmother gave her the meanest work in the house to do; she had to scour the dishes, tables, etc., and to scrub the floors and clean out the bedrooms.

The coyote skulks among the scrub, the buzzard flaps heavily through the air, and the clumsy grizzly bear lumbers through the dark ravines, and picks up such sustenance as it can amongst the rocks. These are the sole dwellers in the wilderness.

Both road and stream wound up through a valley dense with scrub oak and fir.

Fanned by erratic winds in fuel-choked, tinder-dry forests and scrub, the California blazes have torched 468,467 acres (189,580 hectares) so far this year, destroyed 1,823 homes and structures, and killed at least eight people.

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How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!

No little scrub joint shall come on my board.

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind.

We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.

A scrub is a guy that thinks he's fly And is also known as a buster Always talkin' about what he wants And just sits on his broke ass […]

Wow, she really scored 0? What a scrub!

to scrub a floor

to scrub your fingernails

to scrub hard for a living

Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.

The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.

Unacceptable winds aloft caused four scrubs and one hold; adverse weather caused a scrub; […]

A scrub [broom worn out] Scopa detrita.

A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.

The third, which was as homely as its name, and which she reserved for scouring the country and such like rough usage in quite private rural life, was her "Scrub."

For one of Lucia's quaint ideas was to divide dresses into three classes, "Hightum," "Tightum" and "Scrub."

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