festering

Example Sentences

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At a recent meeting of Save Our Domes, a local environmental group, a member described the proposed mines as “equivalent to a huge festering boil on the face of a family member.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

It is a bandage on a festering wound.

From Slate • May 9, 2025

His comments wiggled a finger in a wound which has been festering for some fans of top-flight football this season - the idea that the Premier League has become boring.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2025

“The You You Are” is self-help hackery rife with fool’s gold like, “A society with festering workers cannot flourish, just as a man with rotting toes cannot skip” encrusting bumper sticker calls for rebellion.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025

Nothing would induce her to drag that festering memory into this beautiful mind.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor