callus

Example Sentences

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“I want to build up a callus of hard work,” Fisch said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2024

And that callus blocks the need to find that time.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2023

The cells formed a tumorlike tissue known as callus that could then be coaxed to grow into a seedling.

From Science Magazine • May 17, 2023

Or maybe you don’t notice it at all, until one day you found a little rough patch and realized it wasn’t any old callus, but a virus that had made a home beneath your skin.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2022

She went back to eating earth and the whitewash on the walls with the avidity of previous days, and she sucked her finger with so much anxiety that she developed a callus on her thumb.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez