festering

Example Sentences

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At a recent meeting of Save Our Domes, a local environmental group, a member described the proposed mines as “equivalent to a huge festering boil on the face of a family member.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

Such incidents have resurfaced the Indonesian public’s festering distrust of the police force, said Jacqui Baker, a scholar of Indonesian security and policing at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025

True to its name, it reeks of festering flesh, roughly the size and appearance of an exploded tire made of weathered beef jerky.

From Salon • May 27, 2025

It is a bandage on a festering wound.

From Slate • May 9, 2025

The shower too was glorious: warm clean water over my festering skin, streams of water through my matted hair.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom