scab

Example Sentences

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Some companies called on state militia and federal troops to put down uprisings and hired private security forces to protect so-called scabs.

From The Wall Street Journal

On this, his third album, he picks at the scabs of northern working-class life, and rails against a system that leaves families mired in bureaucratic neglect.

From BBC

Another described her underarm skin as developing a pink rash which had "scabbed over".

From BBC

The spots fill up with fluid and become blisters before crusting over to form scabs, which eventually drop off and clear up.

From BBC

They picked at this particular South Africa scab with their verbal armoury of salty snipes when a tense chase began.

From BBC