ulceration

Example Sentences

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But the sores that worried the vets were actually tumors that were ulcerating and rotting away under assault by T-cells.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2016

But the ulcerating guilt captured in that brutal couplet calls to mind something else that Kipling did: pull strings to get John a commission, after John had twice been rejected on account of weak eyesight.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 25, 2015

But fewer could name the disease spread by those pesky sandflies: The ulcerating skin infection called leishmaniasis.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2011

Just three hilarious, incisive episodes later, it was all over – quietly discharged from the schedules, leaving an almost perceptible stench of soiled sheets, rising bile and ulcerating despair.

From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2010

And many think the mamba brings more suffering, what with the ulcerating and all.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman