scabby

Example Sentences

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"My daughter has a rash across her leg, which is scabby and itchy, and my eldest has anxiety and worries constantly about the mould."

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2024

Their life together is tinged with the absence of Lily’s mother, who only occasionally appears, thin-armed and scabby.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

Other buildings wear their age in their scabby, rain-damaged paint; Ishana was the sleek, prosperous beast in the pack.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2020

Scratching your bow and scratching your scabby elbows!

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

If anyone even looked at them, they threw themselves against the sides of their cage and stuck their scabby snouts out as far as they could and clacked their long yellow teeth together.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt