suppurate

Example Sentences

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It’s all very trippy, and sometimes morbidly funny, studded with fan-friendly gashes of body horror, most often by way of Beau’s own angry, suppurating wounds.

From Washington Post

Skin burns and bones break; wounds fester and suppurate.

From Los Angeles Times

The suppurating rifts in our current society and in our democracy are directly descended from our past with slavery.

From Washington Post

When, despite surgery, a suppurating ear infection spread into his brain, he died at age 46, on Nov. 30, 1900, as a new century was about to dawn.

From Washington Post

The banter is believable, as are the pinpricks of disquiet and the weird suppurating wounds that increasingly mar this otherwise ordinary scene and its genial hero.

From New York Times