scrubbier; scrubbiest
Examples of scrubby in a Sentence
changed into an old flannel shirt and a scrubby pair of jeans to clean out the garage
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Yazid now passed this skill on to Zain, borrowing the taxi and driving him to the empty dirt tracks that spidered out into the scrubby plains around Rawalpindi.
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Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
The combination of dryer sheet softeners and the slightly scrubby texture works magic on removing crud from glass.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 Nov. 2025
Its clear, shallow waters were pleasant to wade into after lazing under one of the scrubby trees on the sand.
—Lucy Handley, CNBC, 15 Nov. 2025
Arnolds Field landfill, just half a mile from Claridge’s home in Rainham, is an undulating swatch of scrubby land spanning roughly 40 acres.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
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Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
The combination of dryer sheet softeners and the slightly scrubby texture works magic on removing crud from glass.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 Nov. 2025
Its clear, shallow waters were pleasant to wade into after lazing under one of the scrubby trees on the sand.
—Lucy Handley, CNBC, 15 Nov. 2025
Arnolds Field landfill, just half a mile from Claridge’s home in Rainham, is an undulating swatch of scrubby land spanning roughly 40 acres.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for scrubby
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“Scrubby.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrubby. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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