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

Eventually, that callus cracks and you almost get drowned in a flood of emotion, which is sort of my last few years.

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

Before, he’d had a single callus from holding his pen.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

She was found with large calluses on her feet and ankles from constantly being on her hands and knees cleaning floors.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

Golfing experts confirmed the former president is wearing the tape properly and that golfers routinely use it to avoid blisters and split calluses.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

He knows that Charles has never seen me like this—that every day all last summer, I rushed home and removed every stain, every smudge, hiding cuts and calluses beneath new clothes and makeup.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Hemphill saw him wheeling around with callused fingers from gripping his racket, sitting up straight, tall, proud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2022

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

Thin and wiry, with powerful forearms and callused fingers, Mr. Watts sat stone-faced behind the drums, as he aged from a hirsute ’60s rocker to a silver-haired master of percussion.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021

Dad made it as far as Grandma’s porch, where he stayed for the rest of the day, a knitted pillow under his head, a callused hand on his stomach.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

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

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 Hedrick, U. P.

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

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 Hedrick, U. P.

They are, therefore, stratified in a callusing bed where moisture and temperature can be controlled.

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