scabby

Example Sentences

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Something is genuinely off about the goings-on at the conference, from strange deaths and elevators that suddenly aren’t elevators, to a rash of scabby infections afflicting guests and the discovery of a subterranean tunnel.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2024

"It was a busy weekend and there were a lot of people ready for a day out. There was me, absolutely stinking, wheeling this box and eating bits of scabby old sandwich."

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2023

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

Beyond stored scabby remnants, smallpox may still exist in suspended animation within buried corpses or mummified human remains.

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2014

He was looking down at the tips of his shoes and his scabby hands were trembling.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus