Sentence examples for excrescence from inspiring English sources

According to Leland Yeager, a fellow-traveller of the Austrian school who once held the Mises chair at Auburn, it is "an embarrassing excrescence" that detracts from the Austrians' other ideas.

Mercifully, this latest inhuman excrescence is not government policy, as at Abu Ghraib.

In Dostoyevsky's novels there are whole chapters that are unnecessary from the point of view of relevance to the rest of the story, and, aesthetically (though perhaps not in other ways), these are a pure excrescence.

Even the fishermen have been infuriated by this monstrous excrescence whose garbage sometimes drifts as far as Cyprus, Syria and Turkey.

"Boka Haram is an excrescence of poverty, as famine is, as hunger is, as corruption is, as war is, as lack of education and health is," he said.

At first, she didn't mind being a bit fatter — she had always been very thin, and was sick of getting dirty looks from other women — but soon her body came to seem entirely alien to her, a weird excrescence.

Here are ladies' noses eaten away at by chancres, or gentlemen's foreheads and cheeks covered with warty excrescences.

The Chateau d'Eu, in its appearance, certainly comes within the nomenclature of "fantastic," for it has high roofs, pinnacles, enormous chimneys, and other excrescences, which do not accord with the architecture of modern palaces, but which still are not without beauty and pleasing effect.

In the cypriniforms, breeding tubercles, or pearl organs (epidermal excrescences), develop on the head, body, and fins of males under the influence of sex hormones.

All those spiky excrescences suggest the probing needles of cacti, for example.

Everywhere there are nasty little lumps, swellings, excrescences, evidence of abnormality.