callus

Each adds another layer of callus over the public conscience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

“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

Short, chunky, muscular, the heir to Bear Island had big thighs, big breasts, and big hands ridged with callus.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Jobs that “put calluses on your hands—those are the only jobs I’ve ever had.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

"Our final, clear polish could be put over any manicure or even bare nails, which could help people with calluses on their fingertips, too. So, it has both a cosmetic and lifestyle benefit," explains Desai.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026

“There’s a little bit of calluses built up where the rib was broken. But it’s mostly comfortable now, nothing too crazy.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

The 83-year-old Chuck Wepner stands 6ft 5in tall, with broad shoulders and heavily knuckled hands; bone calluses serve as reminders of a life spent punching.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2023

Kendra despised working on Nero’s feet the most, from the roughness of his cracked heels, to the smooth pads of his calluses, to the lumpy bunions on his toes.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

I remembered how her hands felt in mine, warm, deeply lined, callused from a lifetime of hard work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

The miners dug hundreds of feet deep with shovels and their bare, callused hands.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2022

This time, however, that bravado backfired against a callused Ravens team with a defense coordinated by Don Martindale.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2021

By 9, Joe’s small hands were callused and stinging.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2021

I had callused my hands; I had scratched dirt to blacken the nails, which I cut straight across to make stubby fingers.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Bioletti, on callusing beds, 56. on grafting, 48, 52. on pruning in California, 151. on resistant stocks, 63. quoted, 18.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

If left as long as this in the callusing bed most of the scion buds will have started and formed white shoots.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

Apparently what occurred was that the grafting wax and paraffin which was coated over the scion melted and penetrated the union, like that much kerosene or penetrating oil, and prevented callusing.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 by Northern Nut Growers Association

In the callusing bed we should endeavor to hasten and perfect the union of stock and scion as much as possible while delaying the starting of the buds and the emission of the roots.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

It is usually better, however, to place them for several weeks in a callusing bed before planting.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick