So many things in the French that the world has not understood were the result of the cankering wound of 1870.
They even their shadows flee; But ne'er can 'scape that dread heart-cankering worm, The sting of conscience.
Then why should we contract our sight When life turns down the side that's bright The blast that blows us ills to-night, With cankering sorrow.
Care With cankering tooth corrodes the seeds of life, And deaf with passion's storms when pines Despair, And howling furies rouse the eternal strife.
She could not quite make up her mind to touch the feverish bills with the cankering coppers in them, and left them airing themselves on the table.
It was a few months after we left this country--I to forget in travel my cankering sorrows, she to companion my wanderings.
There's no spot on its blade In whose cankering breath his bright laurels will fade!
A thing of beauty is immortal; Each line once lost to mortal sight, Soars upward to heaven's august portal, Glad to escape earth's cankering night.
Yet my soul will still defy your prison bolts and bars, And soaring far on eager wings beyond the faintest stars, Live in a world to you unknown, where only poet soul Can bask in beauty undefiled by cankering control!
And now thou art a messenger of Peace, by heaven sent On mission of fraternity, to heal the cankering wound!
She could not quite make up her mind to touch the feverish bills with the cankering copper in them, and left them airing themselves on the table.
Of late it had been easy enough for me to look sad: a cankering evil sat at my heart and drained my happiness at its source--the evil of suspense.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cankering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
