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Example sentences for "canker"

Lexicographically close words:
caning; canique; canister; canisters; canit; cankered; cankering; cankerous; cankers; cankerworm
  1. This gentleman learned a water to kyll a canker of hys owne mother, whych he used all hys lyfe, to the greate helpe of many men, women, and chyldren.

  2. If one could cut the canker away, give him backbone and decency, while retaining that wonderful technique, one would have a second and a greater Théophile Gautier.

  3. And can nothing, no one, escape the blighting touch of that canker stationed at the very foundations of being?

  4. If cure was to be achieved, the canker must be excised, boldly cut out, not overlaid merely by some trifle of partially concealing plaster.

  5. Dormant spray with "Scalecide" in middle April against the canker worms and mites.

  6. Insect Injuries The most damaging insect pests in the Sleeping Giant Plantation are the spring canker worms, the mites (Paratetranychus bicolor), Japanese beetles and the chestnut weevils.

  7. He forgot the presidency that was to be handed out to him; he forgot everything but the horrid canker that gnawed into his heart and brain.

  8. His tall figure was bent with unusual toil, his hands were sore and his heart was full of the canker of rebellion.

  9. Last year the spring canker worm was just as active in the state as the fall canker worm; therefore, just as soon as possible, trees affected last year should be banded with the tree tanglefoot.

  10. The canker was the existence of negro slavery.

  11. Then at last all the corroding bitterness in her heart had gathered to a canker which ached ceaselessly, like a physical sore, in her breast.

  12. What he had not fully observed was the extent to which the canker of cynicism had undermined the King's character, and how low was his judgment of his fellow-men.

  13. But Hyde was under no delusionment as to the canker that was soon to wither all his hopes.

  14. And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turned to folly; blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes.

  15. Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canker dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all.

  16. It was the darker, sordid wickedness that was daily practised on him that ate like a canker into mind and body until he was a shattered wreck.

  17. The impression we get is that he could not bring himself to utter the whole of the unutterable canker which haunted him.

  18. At the first they willed To leave the throne to Creon, minded well Thus to remove the inveterate curse of old, A canker that infected all thy race.

  19. XI is a hand affected with a secret canker which is cut off in the sound part, namely at the end of the radius and cubit bone.

  20. III shews a canker cut from the breast weighing six physical pounds.

  21. II shews how the chyrurgeon takes hold with his left hand, of the ends of the threads that were thrust through, and with his right hand he takes the knife and with that he cutteth the canker out by the roots.

  22. Two such opposed kings encamp them still In man as well as herbs,--grace and rude will; And where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.

  23. The canker that eats up Love's tender spring;" T.

  24. And is't not to be damn'd To let this canker of our nature come In further evil?

  25. The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.

  26. It may be considered as the canker of life, that destroys its vigour, and checks its improvement, that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.

  27. Since then I have struggled with this canker for many a day, and as success fails to arrive it becomes more gnawing.

  28. From very pity this man cannot speak of health when he sees the canker in the rose which blooms upon the cheek, when he perceives that, despite the appearance of strength and vigour, "the whole head is sick, the whole heart is faint.

  29. Youth has generous impulses, has not yet been soured by disappointments, has not yet found out the cynicism of the world, has not become infected by the canker of covetousness.

  30. I spray the first of May with London purple for canker and apple worms.

  31. But a less change will be sufficient: I think it should be read, I had rather be a canker in a hedge, than a rose by his grace.

  32. Nothrus ovivorus, which destroys those of the canker worm.

  33. France will die of that, nothing else can kill her,' and he waved his hand over the glowing, seething city, that lay like a huge canker in the valley of the Seine.

  34. Every writer carries a canker in his heart, a devouring monster, like the tapeworm in the stomach, which destroys all feeling as it arises in him.

  35. The canker gnaw thy heart For showing me again the eyes of man!

  36. I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace, and it better fits my blood to be disdain'd of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any.

  37. Two such opposed kings encamp them still In man as well as herbs- grace and rude will; And where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.

  38. Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth; Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood.

  39. So thou be good, slander doth but approve, Thy worth the greater being wooed of time, For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love, And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.

  40. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame, Which like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!

  41. O Nell, sweet Nell, if thou dost love thy lord, Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts!

  42. No more be grieved at that which thou hast done, Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud, Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abscess; adulterate; alloy; blast; blight; blister; boil; bunion; cancer; canker; carbuncle; chancre; cheapen; chilblain; confound; contaminate; corrode; corrupt; crumble; debase; debauch; decay; decompose; defile; degenerate; degrade; deprave; desecrate; despoil; disintegrate; distort; eat; erode; felon; fester; festering; fungus; gangrene; gathering; gnaw; infect; lesion; mildew; misuse; mold; molder; mortify; mould; moulder; mouldy; must; oxidize; papule; pervert; pest; pestilence; pile; pimple; pock; poison; pollute; polyp; prostitute; pustule; putrefy; rankle; ravage; ravish; rising; rot; rust; scab; smut; sore; spoil; stigma; suppurate; swelling; taint; tubercle; twist; ulcer; violate; vitiate; vulgarize; wale; warp; welt; whelk; worm; wound