scabby

Example Sentences

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Some days were clean, and then some days he was scabby and flaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025

"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

Shoggoths are hideous to look at — pale, bulbous, covered in scabby, asymmetric eyes — and deadly to encounter, with concentric rows of gnarled teeth that turn trespassers into tartare.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2020

Scratching your bow and scratching your scabby elbows!

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

But now we were face to face with huge, scabby, yellow-toothed, angry rats, looking at us with eyes reddened with anger.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt