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

"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

I caught a glimpse of ruined bungalows and scabby pastures, and at a hill-like dump, a pack of dogs tearing at garbage.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2020

Other buildings wear their age in their scabby, rain-damaged paint; Ishana was the sleek, prosperous beast in the pack.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2020

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