fester

Example Sentences

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The company is “kind of letting it fester now,” with the potential for the narrative to drag into next week, he added.

From MarketWatch

"It was so much easier, with how bad my mental health was, to just rot in this cycle and fester in my room."

From BBC

Instead, he sits in it, content to let the rot fester around his film and its audience until death comes for us too.

From Salon

“The You You Are” is self-help hackery rife with fool’s gold like, “A society with festering workers cannot flourish, just as a man with rotting toes cannot skip” encrusting bumper sticker calls for rebellion.

From Salon

Peace proposals and presidents have come and gone but the problems have festered.

From BBC