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Example sentences for "scab"

Lexicographically close words:
sayth; saythe; sbirri; sbirro; scabbard; scabbards; scabbed; scabby; scabies
  1. Beany says the doctor takes a nife and cuts a hole in your arm and then puts on a big scab whitch has come of somebodys arm whitch has been vaxinated, and that stops the blud.

  2. Beany lied about it, but he says if you are vaxinated with the scab of a redheaded person your hair will turn red, and if he has warts or frekles you will have warts two and frekles.

  3. Cele that he got old Nigger Tashs scab for her and he gessed she wood begin to turn prety dark culored before a week or 2.

  4. Avoid fresh manures as much as possible, as the turnip is especially susceptible to scab and worms.

  5. Corrosive sublimate is used to destroy scab on potatoes for seed by dissolving 1 oz.

  6. The very first thing the democratic governor did was to send the soldiers to scab the mines.

  7. His right to work and live, his home, his family and his friends were all swept away because he refused to scab on his fellowmen.

  8. But I'd rather be a broken down old umbrella-fixer without a friend than to be a scab and worth a million.

  9. This ashy material has been swept from the intervening surface leaving the 'scab land' paved with fragments of basalt imbedded in a hard soil.

  10. At Fort Simcoe, immediately south of the Indian agency, on the north edge of "scab land" overlooking a small ravine as mentioned on p.

  11. In this arid region are stretches of country locally known as 'scab land,' on which are occasionally groups of low dome-shaped knolls from about fifty to one hundred feet in diameter, by three to six feet in height.

  12. Perhaps an eighth of a mile south of this, on higher "scab land" was a rather low long mound upon which were several piles of stone that probably marked graves.

  13. The surrounding land is what is locally known as "scab land.

  14. Dressings should not be too frequent; two should suffice for simple wounds with type forms of entry and exit; there is little discharge and usually no bleeding: hence the more the dry scab form of healing can be simulated the better.

  15. When a dressing needs changing from fouling of its outer parts, it is preferable to cut round the adherent part of the deep layers and apply some fresh gauze over the central scab rather than to remove it.

  16. The king tells him that he has already gained the crown, but that he must be cured of this terrible scab [118] first.

  17. Cornelius was inclined to accept the drought, as the unenlightened Boer accepts scab and other evils, as a visitation of Providence which it would be futile as well as impious to attempt to evade.

  18. He concealed his wealth in his house; read his Testament; did not flog his Kaffirs, because he had grown too stout and the power had gone from his arm; and was bitterly opposed to the Scab Act.

  19. A scab is reported for the first time this year in some sections on pecans.

  20. But if the scab spreads on the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.

  21. The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean.

  22. See also, Geldart, Folk-Lore of Modern Greece, "The Scab Pate.

  23. Scab was little known any where, but in the Highlands, and the south of England, till the good old custom of smearing with tar and butter gave way before the elegant modern innovations.

  24. A refusal of cooks and waiters to serve scab teamsters or teamsters' employers brought out the cooks and waiters.

  25. The powerful fighting organization known as the Pacific Slope Seaman's Union refused to work vessels the cargoes of which were to be handled by scab longshoremen and freight-handlers.

  26. It was impossible to get scab crews, for the men of the Seaman's Union were fighters trained in the hard school of the sea, and when they went out it meant blood and death to scabs.

  27. McDonald, a locomotive engineer and author of the Great scab route circular, testified that he was a member of the American Railway Union and a delegate to their convention.

  28. We've got to settle the scab question with Driscoll for good an' all.

  29. The scab rose to his feet and stepped across to the planking.

  30. He pointed out Petersen as a scab to the steward.

  31. If there's a scab on the job, I didn't know it.

  32. I'm goin' to settle the scab question for good with him.

  33. Under this scab the formation of granulation tissue, its transformation into cicatricial tissue, and the growth of epithelium on the surface, go on until in the course of time the crust separates, leaving a scar.

  34. Under this scab the skin ulcerates, leaving small oval sores with sharply bevelled edges, and an uneven floor covered with yellow or sanious pus.

  35. A pustule forms and bursts, and a brownish-yellow scab forms over it.

  36. For three months she had a scab as large as my hand.

  37. When the scab began to loosen, she would come to me every day and ask me to cut off the loose edges.

  38. Every one said the sore would not heal, and, if it did, the hair would never come in, but the scab is all gone, and the hair has come in and almost covered the bare spots.

  39. Face covered with a brown and yellow scab and scurf.

  40. The Common Scab or Itch insect (Sarcoptes scabiei) forms the type of a great variety of arachnids, generally spoken of as different species according to the host they dwell upon.

  41. The natural moisture of the bulbs seems, by some kind of paper protection as mentioned above, to be conserved, while full and continued exposure to dry air seems to provoke scab as well as hardening of the outer skin of the bulbs.

  42. We have no doubt this, like scab in sheep and itch in the human species, will be found, on close investigation, to be caused by minute insects located in the skin.

  43. Scab is propagated more by using the same rubbing posts, than by contact with each other.

  44. Scab is also removed by using a composition of one pound plug tobacco to three gallons of water, with lime-water and oil of vitriol added; or a decoction of hellebore with vinegar, sulphur, and spirits of turpentine.

  45. Loathly scab assails the sheep, When chilly showers have probed them to the quick, And winter stark with hoar-frost, or when sweat Unpurged cleaves to them after shearing done, And rough thorns rend their bodies.

  46. Such skill was of course soon noised abroad, and a feudal prince, who also had a scab on his nose, sent for the mason to take it off.

  47. When the scab was all off, the nose was found to be quite uninjured.

  48. There's some union trouble because The Bedford Castle discharged her cargo with scab labor.

  49. You put yourself in the way of danger when you hired scab labor to break that strike.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scab" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abscess; birthmark; blackhead; blackleg; blemish; blister; boil; bunion; canker; carbuncle; chancre; check; chilblain; cicatrix; crack; crater; craze; crust; deface; defect; deform; deformity; disfigure; disfigurement; distort; distortion; fault; felon; fester; festering; fink; flaw; freckle; gathering; incrustation; kink; lesion; mar; mole; papule; pile; pimple; pit; pock; polyp; pustule; rat; rift; rising; scab; scale; scar; scarify; scratch; shell; sore; split; stigma; swelling; track; tubercle; twist; ulcer; vesicle; wale; warp; wart; weal; welt; wen; whelk; wound