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"Scab" in a Sentence (23 examples)
Tom's wound was still weeping and had yet to scab over.
His belly button hole is going to scab up.
Unfortunately I have the bad habit of picking the scab off my wounds.
Tom kept picking at the scab on his hand.
Don't scab.
Don't be a scab.
Costa is working to protect farmers from a fungal disease called wheat scab that infected half the crop last year.
For example, because U.S. commercial apple trees are often felled by diseases like "fire blight" and "apple scab," Forsline and his team have made several field trips to the forests of Kazakhstan, where the apple originated, to collect wild apple seeds. Because this fungal disease co-exists with ancient wild apple trees, Forsline concludes that the trees have evolved genetic resistance to it.
Don't pick up at the scab and make it bleed.
Cries of "scab" could be heard as he crossed the picket line.
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Scab was the terror of the sheep farmer, and the peril of his calling.
I would make thee the / loathsomest scab in Greece.
When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.
1734, Royal Society of London, The Philosophical Transactions (1719 - 1733) Abridged, Volume 7, page 631, Thoſe Puſtules aroſe, maturated, and ſcabbed off, intirely like the true Pox.
Trev walked over and leaned down, dropping a tender kiss on her forehead where the skin was raw and scabbing from the cut.
The bark that wasn′t already scabbed off was peppered with beetle holes.
The beds shall be scabbed off to give a solid bearing, no pinning shall be admitted between the backing and the face stones and there shall be a good square joint not exceeding one inch in width, and the face stone shall be scabbed off to allow this.
Don't scab for the bosses / Don't listen to their lies / Us poor folks haven't got a chance / Unless we organize.
Nobody desires to scab, to give most for least. The ambition of every individual is quite the opposite, to give least for most; and, as a result, living in a tooth-and-nail society, battle royal is waged by the ambitious individuals.
I scabbed some money off a friend.
2004, Niven Govinden, We are the New Romantics, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK, page 143, Finding a spot in a covered seating area that was more bus shelter than tourist-friendly, I unravelled a mother of a joint I′d scabbed off the garçon.
2006, Linda Jaivin, The Infernal Optimist, 2010, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page, I′d already used up me mobile credit. I was using a normal phone card, what I got from Hamid, what got it from a church lady what helped the refugees. I didn′t like scabbing from the asylums, but they did get a lotta phone cards.
I′ve told Fred we can see a movie this weekend, but that just seems like a money-wasting activity. And I can′t keep scabbing off my best friend.
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