Sentence examples for scab over from inspiring English sources

And when it would eventually scab over, I'd end up picking at them again," he continued.

He said, "It will scab over," and sent me back to work.

At first it refused to scab over, and they suspected gangrene; Mary Celeste used her pinafore to wrap the thing.

Dad's wounds were beginning to scab over so he was on good form, cuddling Mum and cracking shit puns.

Perhaps wounds don't entirely heal, Cruz seems to be saying, but they don't always have to scab over with bitterness and regret, either.

"It's almost like it started to scab over for a lot of people, and now filing these charges is like picking the scab off and re-victimizing people whose constitutional rights were violated in the first place". .

When the blisters scabbed over, I returned to work, but I was so tired and my eye was so sensitive to light that I had to cut short my workdays".

The impact of the past on the present is an enduring theme in Morrison's work, whether, as in this case, the scars of childhood that have "festered and never scabbed over", or those of the traumas of black American history.

The "pox" of smallpox, lumpy spots that appeared on the face and body, eventually scabbed over, leaving survivors with pitted scars.

But because the conflict is a wound that only very recently scabbed over, the memory of it still lingers "like a hangover".

Some of us bite our nails to the point that the skin on each finger is always in a state of bleeding or scabbing over, and each nail is only a millimeter long.