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

Scratching your bow and scratching your scabby elbows!

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

Brad Greer, 49, developed two scabby infections on each of his legs where rain boots had irritated his skin.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2017

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