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Canker
"Canker" in a Sentence (13 examples)
I bit the inside of my lip and got a canker sore.
My canker hurts, so I can't really eat.
Every single citrus tree entering the country is inspected for signs of canker lesions on its leaves and stems.
Slightly sunken brown cankers of variable size and shape affect stem parts primarily below the soil line.
loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud[…]
the cankers of envy and faction
There’s canker at the root, your seed Denies the blessing of the sun, The light essential to your need. Your hopes are murdered and undone.
To put down Richard, that ſweet louely Roſe, And plant this thorne, this canker Bullingbrooke?
This Caſtoꝛ liueth by water and lande, he loueth to feede vpon Crabbes and Cankers of the Sea.
It is this power of active motion which has obtained it a local name in the West of Cornwall, where, as crabs in general are termed "cankers," this species is distinguished by the name of "flying canker."
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Still onward winds the dreary way; / I with it; for I long to prove / No lapse of moons can canker Love, / Whatever fickle tongues may say.
as with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.
[…] the road, always in bad condition, was edged with dog roses that scratched the paint. Blossom after blossom crept past them, draggled by the ungenial year: some had cankered, others would never unfold:
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