How to Use pustule in a Sentence

pustule

noun

• The pustules are typically round and hard to the touch.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 21 June 2023
• Then there is a disease called rust that may put orange pustules on the leaves.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 July 2018
• The following day, the welt will go down, but a pustule will likely take its place, per the AOCD.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• Skin sores fill with fluid; pustules form, scab and scar.
  — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 26 June 2017
• For those with mainly papules and pustules, there are over-the-counter treatment solutions that work.
  — Molly Nover-Baker, Redbook, 27 Dec. 2016
• O'Reilly and his ilk are a festering pustule on the American body politic.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 19 Apr. 2017
• These ants deliver a painful sting that produces a red pustule that itches and burns.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 11 July 2022
• Its sting produces first a burning sensation—hence the name—and then a smallpox-like pustule.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• With his left hand, Napoleon touches a pustule near an infected soldier’s armpit in a Christ-like gesture, as if to heal him.
  — Robert Klitzman, STAT, 25 June 2020
• McMichael says to look out for small, whitehead-looking pustules that can arise at the areas of significant pulling.
  — Nykia Spradley, SELF, 29 Jan. 2018
• Pimples, also called whiteheads, pustules or papules, are small tender bumps found on the areas of the body where the most oil glands are present, such as on one's face, back, shoulders, and neck.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
• Cut out leaves with rust pustules rather than pulling them off as the latter action disperses the spores onto other leaves, into the air and onto the soil.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
• The pus inside those pustules is actually made up of white blood cells, is not from an infection.
  — Lambeth Hochwald, Health.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Dermatologists suggest that the patches work their best magic when the lesion is a pustule (a pimple with pus at the tip).
  — SELF, 30 Dec. 2021
• Eventually the spots, which initially look like a pimple or pustule, can scab or crust over.
  — Dr. Mark Abdelmalek, ABC News, 25 July 2022
• Additionally, fire ant bites can cause itching, burning, and pain.6 Note: Though the pustules are itchy, try to avoid scratching them.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 28 May 2023
• Dimsdale harvested the contents of a smallpox pustule from the young son of a sergeant-major and used it to inoculate Catherine.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2021
• At some point, those pustules will go through umbilication, where their dome shape will become depressed in the middle.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 21 June 2023
• After the ingrown hairs have been pulled and any pustules have been extracted, a vajacial in the form of a mask, or scrub or skin conditioner could be amazing.
  — Essence, 5 Aug. 2019
• People who evacuated during the storm often had what looked like full body rashes, in which each large pustule was a single ant bite.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 11 Sep. 2020
• The bites may at first show up as small, red, itchy welts, but will usually develop a little pustule or blister with a pinprick of blood visible) in a day or so.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
• The final forms resemble soft sea creatures, or plants from a Dr. Seuss book, or odd Technicolor pustules.
  — Nora McGreevy, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
• Each pustule contains live virus, and a ruptured blister can contaminate bed linens and other items, putting close contacts at risk.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2022
• Skin imperfections are revealed to have names—papules, pustules, milia, cysts—and to respond to certain treatments.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, The New Yorker, 6 June 2017
• A less-severe form of cystic acne, papular pustules are sensitive to the touch (from the inflammation) and also the work of hormones and genetics.
  — Marissa Desantis, Teen Vogue, 23 Aug. 2017
• Without further ado, here's the scoop straight from dermatologists on some of the best acne treatments for every type of zit, cyst, and pustule threatening to implode on your skin.
  — Michelle Rostamian, Allure, 11 Mar. 2022
• These active ingredients will help red, inflamed pimples and pustules go away faster.
  — Annie Blay, Allure, 16 Oct. 2023
• These pustules, lumps, and boils that grow underneath your top skin layer can be symptoms of acne inversa — acne in reverse.
  — Kate Watson, Allure, 1 Apr. 2020
• This involved taking matter from a smallpox patient’s pustule—a snake pit of live virus—and applying it to the pricked skin of an uninfected person, then covering the spot with a linen rag.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2020
• A few days after the fever begins, patients develop distinctive pustule-like lesions that usually start on the face and spread across the body before scabbing over and falling away.
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024