scabby

Example Sentences

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Some days were clean, and then some days he was scabby and flaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025

"It was a busy weekend and there were a lot of people ready for a day out. There was me, absolutely stinking, wheeling this box and eating bits of scabby old sandwich."

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2023

Shoggoths are hideous to look at — pale, bulbous, covered in scabby, asymmetric eyes — and deadly to encounter, with concentric rows of gnarled teeth that turn trespassers into tartare.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2020

Scratching your bow and scratching your scabby elbows!

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

If anyone even looked at them, they threw themselves against the sides of their cage and stuck their scabby snouts out as far as they could and clacked their long yellow teeth together.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt