scab

Example Sentences

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“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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Apples are also among the most heavily treated fruits, with pesticides used in particular to fight apple scab, the main fungal threat to orchards.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

There’s always that issue of, do you really want to pull the scab off an old scar and open the wound?

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2024

"If the pesticides were of reliable quality, the scab in our orchards would be less," Mr Bhat says.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2023

The nurses had told me not to, but I couldn’t resist pulling on them real slow to see how big a scab I could get loose.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls