How to Use scab in a Sentence

scab

1 of 2 noun

• Need to make blood and guts or maybe some gnarly scabs?
  — Susan Choung, Good Housekeeping, 5 July 2023
• Who wants to see a play that yanks the scab from unhealed wounds?
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• Boils that must be lanced, or at least scabs that itch to be picked.
  — John Herrman, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• Sure enough, the wound balled up into a dark scab that soon fell off.
  — Allen Mendenhall, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
• Blues at Bruins, Oct. 26 Just grab that Game 7 scab and rip.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• If the stars promote the movie at the festival, will they be seen as scabs?
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
• The rough blotchy areas on the fruit surface are a symptom of pear scab.
  — oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2020
• As the days went by, a sort of skin or scab grew over the memory of her arrest.
  — Hari Kunzru, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• Adding onion flakes gives just the right chunky texture to give the appearance of scabs.
  — Susan Choung, Good Housekeeping, 5 July 2023
• If found guilty, scabs could be fined, or even expelled.
  — Hannah Leone, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• This may be the time to stop picking at the scab that is the vaccination wars.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022
• My brother stored these scabs in a box that had once held chocolates.
  — Yoko Ogawa, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
• Chase had black eyes and old injuries that were healing with scabs.
  — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• The 24-year-old melanoma survivor likens it to asking someone about a scab.
  — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 25 June 2021
• The make-up department has slathered his face in scabs, bruises and dirt.
  — Gogo Lidz, Newsweek, 18 June 2015
• His wrist was split open and his face — now covered in scabs — was sprayed with shrapnel.
  — Heidi Levine, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• During the healing process, new tattoos will itch, kind of like a scab.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 6 Aug. 2020
• There is a slight risk of bleeding when the scabs fall off about seven to 10 days after surgery.
  — Pao Vang, M.d., Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
• The walls of these canyons remind me of lacerated skin where the scab was torn off.
  — Douglas Fox, National Geographic, 12 Apr. 2016
• The cure for greyscale is literally picking it off the body like a scab?
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Aug. 2017
• For some in Miami, the film may seem a bit like picking at a scab that hasn’t healed quite right.
  — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 27 Apr. 2017
• The problem is, everybody wants to keep picking the scab.
  — Justin Sherman, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2021
• Getting the news felt like ripping off a still-tender scab.
  — Libor Jany, Star Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
• The coming election season, with Trump likely on the ballot, could be enough to pick the scab.
  — Jonathan Weisman Benjamin Rasmussen, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The nearly 70-acre site has sat like an open scab on Charlotte's east side for nearly a decade.
  — Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 26 Apr. 2018
• That’s due to pecan scab, a fungus that attacked the pecans clear back in early summer.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Sep. 2021
• The blisters heal in a week or two to form crusty scabs that eventually fall off.
  — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
• The scabs were cast out with the salary cap, and play resumed on April 25 under the same rules that had governed the sport on Aug. 11 the previous year.
  — Cliff Corcoran, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2014
• The Verge spoke to Ignotofsky about velvet worms, how art is like a scab, and why mistakes are a key part of style.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2018
• So, as scripts run out, more of your favorite daytime soaps could also turn to scab writers to keep them going.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 25 July 2023

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scab

2 of 2 verb

• The rash can progress across the body, and eventually scab over before the scabs fall off.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
• The lesions progress, become filled with a fluid, then scab and fall off.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 24 May 2022
• The blisters typically scab over in seven to 10 days, and can take up to four weeks to clear up.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 17 July 2017
• The lesions begin as flat but then become raised, filled with fluid, and scab over.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 June 2022
• The lesions finally scab over and resolve over a period of two to three weeks, the CDC said.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 7 June 2022
• Some people may form blisters or scab over in the few days, as the extreme cold has destroyed the skin cells in order to make the skin tag go away.
  — Kristi Kellogg, Allure, 12 Aug. 2020
• Let succulent cuts dry out and scab over for a day or two before planting.
  — oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2021
• Lesions progress through stages and scab before falling off.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2022
• The rash consists of small blisters that typically scab over in seven to 10 days and clear up within two-to-four weeks.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2020
• Soldiers marching to Rome from Mesopotamia in late 165 AD were ill, many covered in red and black papules that eventually would scab over and fall off.
  — Fox News, 22 Apr. 2020
• The typical evolution of the rash is that the pustules progress to blisters that eventually scab over.
  — Dr. Mark Abdelmalek, ABC News, 25 July 2022
• The lesions may be painful or itchy, and will eventually scab over and fall off before fully healing.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 18 Aug. 2022
• Monkeypox lesions inevitably will scab over — and while that is a step in the right direction in terms of the infection, the sores underneath can scar.
  — Dr. Mark Abdelmalek, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2022
• Thwarting the rash could also help people make a swifter exit from isolation, which can stretch for weeks as patients wait for their lesions to scab and heal over.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2022
• The lesions eventually scab over and fall off, usually within two to four weeks.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2022
• The disease later progresses into a rash and lesions that can blister and scab over all over the body -- usually lasting two to four weeks.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 22 June 2022
• Finally, the lesions will scab over and eventually fall off.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 28 May 2022
• Until the lesions scab over and heal, people can infect others through close physical contact or by touching things like bedding that were in contact with the rash.
  — Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 8 July 2022
• The disease eventually progresses into a rash and lesions that blister and scab over.
  — Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 29 May 2022
• That's followed by a painful rash that develops into fluid-containing pustules that scab over.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 21 Aug. 2022
• People with monkeypox should be considered infectious until after the sores scab over and fall off.
  — Dr. Celine Gounder, CBS News, 28 June 2022
• The formation of these media-relations fiascos tends to scar and scab over the conscience, to treat it as an irrelevance or, at best, a private problem to be overcome.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021
• Typically, the vaccinated area would form a blister, scab over, and leave behind a distinctive scar.
  — Jordan E. Taylor, Time, 5 Apr. 2021
• Non-members who scab jeopardize ever becoming members of this great Alliance.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Oct. 2021
• Like smallpox, monkeypox causes skin blisters that eventually scab over.
  — Maggie Fox, CNN, 16 July 2021
• The rash can progress across the body, and eventually scab over before the scabs fall off.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
• The lesions progress, become filled with a fluid, then scab and fall off.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 24 May 2022
• The blisters typically scab over in seven to 10 days, and can take up to four weeks to clear up.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 17 July 2017
• The lesions begin as flat but then become raised, filled with fluid, and scab over.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 June 2022
• The lesions finally scab over and resolve over a period of two to three weeks, the CDC said.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 7 June 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024