scabby

Example Sentences

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"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

Their life together is tinged with the absence of Lily’s mother, who only occasionally appears, thin-armed and scabby.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

I was the kid who whose body was covered with eczema - raw, red, oozing and scabby.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2016

Beyond stored scabby remnants, smallpox may still exist in suspended animation within buried corpses or mummified human remains.

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2014

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