scab
Example Sentences
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They stuck tight to the wound in an instant scab.
From Literature
An AFP photograph showed a red area with several brownish scabs protruding above his shirt collar on the right side of the neck of the 79-year-old president, the oldest ever elected.
From Barron's
The scab rubbed off her knee, and it began to bleed again.
From Literature
“These people believe that you take the scab off of a wound and take it off again and again until something miraculous happens,” Boritt grumbles to the camera.
It was just beneath his skin where he couldn’t scratch at it or pick it like a scab.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
