How to Use scab in a Sentence

scab

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  • Need to make blood and guts or maybe some gnarly scabs?
    — Susan Choung, Good Housekeeping, 5 July 2023
  • Who wants to see a play that yanks the scab from unhealed wounds?
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • Boils that must be lanced, or at least scabs that itch to be picked.
    — John Herrman, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Sure enough, the wound balled up into a dark scab that soon fell off.
    — Allen Mendenhall, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Blues at Bruins, Oct. 26 Just grab that Game 7 scab and rip.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • If the stars promote the movie at the festival, will they be seen as scabs?
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The rough blotchy areas on the fruit surface are a symptom of pear scab.
    — oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2020
  • As the days went by, a sort of skin or scab grew over the memory of her arrest.
    — Hari Kunzru, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
  • Adding onion flakes gives just the right chunky texture to give the appearance of scabs.
    — Susan Choung, Good Housekeeping, 5 July 2023
  • If found guilty, scabs could be fined, or even expelled.
    — Hannah Leone, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • This may be the time to stop picking at the scab that is the vaccination wars.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022
  • My brother stored these scabs in a box that had once held chocolates.
    — Yoko Ogawa, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
  • Chase had black eyes and old injuries that were healing with scabs.
    — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The 24-year-old melanoma survivor likens it to asking someone about a scab.
    — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 25 June 2021
  • The make-up department has slathered his face in scabs, bruises and dirt.
    — Gogo Lidz, Newsweek, 18 June 2015
  • His wrist was split open and his face — now covered in scabs — was sprayed with shrapnel.
    — Heidi Levine, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • During the healing process, new tattoos will itch, kind of like a scab.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 6 Aug. 2020
  • There is a slight risk of bleeding when the scabs fall off about seven to 10 days after surgery.
    — Pao Vang, M.d., Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • The walls of these canyons remind me of lacerated skin where the scab was torn off.
    — Douglas Fox, National Geographic, 12 Apr. 2016
  • The cure for greyscale is literally picking it off the body like a scab?
    — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Aug. 2017
  • For some in Miami, the film may seem a bit like picking at a scab that hasn’t healed quite right.
    — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The problem is, everybody wants to keep picking the scab.
    — Justin Sherman, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Getting the news felt like ripping off a still-tender scab.
    — Libor Jany, Star Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The coming election season, with Trump likely on the ballot, could be enough to pick the scab.
    — Jonathan Weisman Benjamin Rasmussen, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The nearly 70-acre site has sat like an open scab on Charlotte's east side for nearly a decade.
    — Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 26 Apr. 2018
  • That’s due to pecan scab, a fungus that attacked the pecans clear back in early summer.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The blisters heal in a week or two to form crusty scabs that eventually fall off.
    — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The scabs were cast out with the salary cap, and play resumed on April 25 under the same rules that had governed the sport on Aug. 11 the previous year.
    — Cliff Corcoran, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2014
  • The Verge spoke to Ignotofsky about velvet worms, how art is like a scab, and why mistakes are a key part of style.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2018
  • Her dad said her only complaint over the next couple of days was itching on her head, where the scab was.
    — Kwegyirba Croffie, CNN, 22 May 2017

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