scab

“I can tell you that it’s a wound that will scab over in time, but will tear open from time to time.”

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026

“These people believe that you take the scab off of a wound and take it off again and again until something miraculous happens,” Boritt grumbles to the camera.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Apples are also among the most heavily treated fruits, with pesticides used in particular to fight apple scab, the main fungal threat to orchards.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

“It’s been a long-term process,” Tammie said as she pointed to a fresh scab on her husband’s scalp from a recent fall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

“Yes,” she says, scratching a scab on her knee.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

An AFP photograph showed a red area with several brownish scabs protruding above his shirt collar on the right side of the neck of the 79-year-old president, the oldest ever elected.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

Of course, Boritt had devoted much of that life, as a historian, to picking at one of the gnarliest scabs in American history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

You are contagious and can spread chickenpox to other people from two days before the first spots develop until they have all formed scabs, which is usually five days after they first appear.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025

“I had these giant scabs on my head,” he said, “these were like golf-ball-sized scabs.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2025

The derelict bodies of the poor were found in abandoned houses, disfigured with disease’s scabs, swaddled in table-clothes and all the refinements of shattered luxury.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Whereas Li’s and Barker’s wounds are fresh, Longwell’s have largely scabbed over.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The wounds that Vogel prods have largely scabbed over, and the concluding mood is one of compassion and release.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

She had reported concerns about a mole on her upper arm which had grown, becoming itchy and scabbed.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2023

His hand is still bruised and scabbed, and it must heal fully before he can resume swinging a bat.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 22, 2023

There was a hand protruding from the cloak and it was glistening, grayish, slimy-looking, and scabbed, like something dead that had decayed in water....

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

The rash goes through several stages which include flat spots, raised spots, blisters and then scabbing.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

A few days after the fever begins, patients develop distinctive pustule-like lesions that usually start on the face and spread across the body before scabbing over and falling away.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2022

In the photos taken by investigators soon after Suzanne’s disappearance on Mother’s Day that year, there are three abrasions or cuts scabbing over, Rohrich said, Fox 21 reported.

From Fox News ● Aug. 23, 2021

I think the mechanisms behind this scabbing over of old concerns might explain some of the behavior we’re seeing in this pandemic.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2020

“I’m all done. It will hurt a little tomorrow and may bleed a bit during the scabbing stage, but you should be fine.”

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos