"It could fester into a big problem".
It's something that would infect me and, years later, fester into my own career in film.
Wilpon praised Howe for not letting the losses fester into player grumbling.
Or, like Congo, shrug off this crisis as inevitable, leaving sexual violence to fester into a pandemic.
It suggests capitalist consumerism's suppression of eccentric social energies, which may fester into violence for lack of a constructive outlet.
I tuck these moments away in my heart where they fester into a messy sort of love.
Ming told her client that unexpressed feelings could eventually atrophy or, worse, fester into disgust, and the woman realized that she had carried this reserve into her marriage.
In peer mediation, an essential component of conflict resolution, selected students are taught how to mediate disagreements among classmates before they fester into fights.
In James's novella buttoned-up tensions fester into more lurid obsessions subtly and gradually — an effect echoed in Britten's compulsively organized score, which includes a 12-tone theme screwed slowly in permutations throughout the work.
A bigger gamble that does not pay off in "Straight as a Line" is his extreme distance from the characters and the secret fears they share, which fester into something close to despair.
In the extreme, we coaches feel as if we're letting our children down in not winning, as if losing will fester into a lifelong deficit disorder -- when, in fact, children on their own deal well with losing.
