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Sentence Examples Oh what a post that is gonna be, it's been festering for a while let me tell you! Their festering sexuality squinted at you through their unwashed fringes as they strode in step down the school corridors. Another bear suffered serious burns to its legs and chest, resulting in festering wounds and fever. Yet the arrogant decision to hide these documents away has left a festering sore which has never healed. Long a festering popular grievance, official corruption has reached endemic levels, with potentially explosive social consequences. The mystery and the bad marriage frustrate the telling of the story, because so much is repressed, unspoken, festering. If they cannot do this, then they should help to remove this festering sore from our statute book and support this bill. I tipped my chair backwards so that I could dump my pan onto the pile of dishes festering in the sink. For three days Charles remained locked up, his feelings festering and burning inside him. I looked in the sink the next day and here's this festering pile of mince meat. Plates of baked beans on toast were festering near piles of unfinished homework on the dust covered desk. Fears about festering bags of rubbish behind the store and an increase in traffic in the quiet cul-de-sac are the main reasons for the objection. But for almost a month now it's been covered with these festering piles of garbage. For most of Elizabeth's reign, Ireland remained a festering sore in the Tudor body politic. I couldn't even see a collection of mouldy teacups festering on the new wooden floor. Jack drinks to the nagging, festering sense of regret that torments his sleep. One poor display does not make a team a bad one, but problems that had been festering broke out into full-blown sores. It doesn't take long for the scab of small-town wholesomeness to be picked off, revealing the perversity festering underneath. From what I could see in the darkness his flesh was purple and soaked with dried blood under his clothes, and some of the wounds were festering. They have never seen leprosy or festering abscesses or sores that do not heal. Show More Sentences Malvolio is a haughty major-domo, but where is his festering self-love and manic insecurity? The open sores had been festering unnoticed and to this, he applied some poultices. Some of the villagers also suffered from festering sores caused by the pollution. Away from the gleaming skyscrapers, China's cities are ringed by run-down shacks, with festering heaps of garbage by the roadside. What makes these songs so potent is the unmistakable angst festering beneath each one. It has been more than a month since that half-point loss to the league's top team, and you're still festering. It sat in the back seat of the car festering the whole day but none of us could bring ourselves to throw it out. If they had listened to the opponents of the war, they would still be festering in that shack. Cash's cover invokes an image of an epic judgment day for a planet festering with failed lovers. An assortment of half-empty aluminium trays and polystyrene cups were festering on top of the washing up along with empty lager cans. For most of us, checking labels is a thing we do before we throw out food that has been festering in the kitchen, long past its sell-by-date. There is one case that I would suggest has long been a festering sore on the Canadian justice system. This is aggravating an already festering situation produced by outbreaks of malaria, dengue fever, hepatitis-A, leptospirosis, cholera and other diarrheal diseases. But by ignoring the problems now festering in the heartland, Congress and the White House will end up diluting the fiscal stimulus over which they are battling so hard. Maybe festering resentment, ingrown anger, and self-hate are the inevitable result of the long years spent in fruitless opposition to the global reach of American power. Strip clubs are not a festering hive of perverts and deviants. I have written to senior CSC management to take the lid off the festering institution. The debilitation from festering wounds and the loss of efficiency in swimming, diving, feeding and other behaviour are difficult to measure. Cargo bays were poorly ventilated and baked under the equatorial sun, leading to festering and putrefaction. We are seeing this problem and a lot of other problems festering because the Conservatives seem to have inaction as their middle name. Show More Sentences Signs that the issue is still festering came again in last week's Private Eye which said that Morgan held sway over the Sunday titles too. A plague will never sweep the streets of Assassin's Creed: Unity, allowing sinister new clans to emerge from the festering alleyways. Others felt that some important contentious issues were festering in the background, predicting a difficult final day. However, it is an arrangement which has been developed to address a lingering and festering real problem in the previous citizenship regime. Ms. Karen Wristen: I have some lovely pictures of escaped farmed Atlantic salmon with lovely festering ulcers on them, if you'd like them. The absence of any interest is allowing a festering wound to continue on the body politic of the world. We would find a psychosis in someone with a cut on her arm, who does nothing to treat it but leaves it, festering and painful, for weeks on end. Blackmailing threats of resignation indicate a weakness which is a running sore already and will develop into a festering boil. Indeed, these long-running collective labour disputes amount to a festering wound at the core of China's economic success story. A dispute over softwood lumber being imported from Canada into the United States has been festering for the last 12 years. Paul believed in the commandment that was truly good and just, and yet the twelve kinds of sin were alive and festering in his heart. Because otherwise social conventions and inequalities would be unbearably stifling and irksome, and terrible things and events would remain festering in our minds, unaired. Clearly this was a sore that had been festering for some time. Its body was covered in festering sores, oozing revolting yellowish pus. When we brought you in here, the wounds were infected and festering. It was populated by festering drifts of trash, with large dumpsters rising out of the junk like weird islands, and a few old-fashioned tin trashcans here and there. She lifts up the gray carpet and finds the steak, festering away. Nevertheless, to ensure that there are no problems still festering, it is our intention to carry out a final audit of the equipment prior to expiry of the warranty agreement. I felt infused with a smug glow of satisfaction until I remembered I had a pile of muddy plant pots festering on my potting table so large it was threatening to engulf me. You have a festering wound in 90 degrees that, if it goes untreated, can lead to sepsis, and death. Show More Sentences A beggar slouches against a wall, his legs festering with open wounds. A festering sense of injustice is not only unacceptable to the victims but can have grave repercussions at the national and sometimes regional level. I believe that challenges to the OSCE's relevance and strategic direction have shaken some States out of their complacency and brought into the open some issues that had been festering below the surface for some time. You can't sew up a wound that is still festering. He finds also that the festering malevolence between William Lyon Mackenzie's followers and the Family Compact touches everything and everyone that autumn. Fear that they will be trapped forever in festering slums because their voices are never heard and because they are excluded from the routes out of poverty. This global loan-sharking has resulted in daily war in Brazil's cities with poverty and hunger rampant and unemployment described as a festering wound. For that reason alone, we should redouble our efforts and work tirelessly to prevent the outbreak of new conflicts and to resolve those that are still festering. The slum was based around narrow streets, badly ventilated and full of crowded houses that led to festering diseases. It's like having a big festering wound on your leg and you're running a very high temperature, and they're trying to pump in medicine to get the fever down. That festering sore in our industry is going on today. I avoided the issue last week as the loss of One Up remains a festering wound that still makes Aberdeen's musos wince. To prevent the festering ditch posing further health problems, it was ordered that the moat should be drained and filled with earth. Two festering problems were directly addressed and resolved. Without political settlements, the world will be left with festering conflicts which place a heavy burden on humanitarian delivery systems and on peacekeeping. Sit around festering with hate, hatching plots against each other, until they dimwittedly bring about their own demise. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born into the festering hellhole of 18th century Paris. My desire evaporates as fast as the sky train that will bring him home to his festering suburb later tonight, a few bahts in his pockets to spend on useless trinkets. Their policy was sometimes summed up as Divide and Rule, taking advantage of the enmity festering between various princely states and social and religious groups. Examples from Classical Literature The boy's right arm was a loathsome sight, festering from a neglected wound. Until the clansmen had opened and aired the festering sores of their grievances there lay in them no hope of amenability. He regards them as vermin to be left to languish and die of their festering wounds. Many of them became afflicted with an itchy, festering skin disease, though otherwise healthy and fat. When they reached Yaroslavl the wound had begun to fester and the doctor had said that the festering might take a normal course. He never knew, each time he entered the festering shambles, whether or not he would be able to complete the round. Pent in their vast and festering charnel-house, all organization and cohesion lost, they could do naught but die. Every lavatory I enter in the land of nod is about as appealing as the festering bog that swallows Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting. No, moribund wretches, I am not referring to the Pathetic Snuffle Pandemic that is sweeping these festering isles, causing untold cases of minor inconvenience. Mix them with oil of orrisroot, or the oil of henna plant, or the oil of camphire plant making an ointment that is then spread over the festering rural ulcers. Into that little pot goes a festering row between the chairman of the board, Lord Ian MacLaurin and Brian Bolus, new chairman of the England Management Advisory Committee. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of festering? Words that rhyme with festering What is the plural of festering? What is the adverb for festering? What is the adjective for festering? What is the noun for festering? Translations for festering Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words festered fester festal Festa festa fest festerous festination festival festivalgoer festivalgoers festivals 9-letter Words Starting With f fe fes fest feste fester festeri festerin