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

"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

They had hair the color of cardboard in splotches over parts of their bodies, but mostly they were just yellow and scabby skinned.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt