Sentence examples for scabs from inspiring English sources

There are sores, scabs and nasal hairs, each magnified by a factor of 200.

He gets his uncle to show the scabs from a beating by Turkish police.

The dispute also caused bitter and long-lasting divisions in pit communities between striking miners and their colleagues who chose to cross picket lines and were branded "scabs".

Leprosy attacks the nerves and skin, leaving behind scaly scabs.

A consequence is that Japan is unable to take any regional initiative (over the environment, for instance, or energy use) at the very time it is seeking international "normalisation".The scratching of historical scabs has also inflamed the many island and seabed disputes in the seas dividing Japan from China and South Korea.

In desperation, some of them crossed picket lines and braved being abused as "scabs" to take jobs as strike-breakers.

Unfortunately, Japan does itself no favours when it comes to reassuring the neighbours.Picking at the scabs of historyThe problem is that the normalisation of Japan's defence is not being matched by what could be called the normalisation of its nationalism, and the prime minister shares a part of the blame.

In his latest novel, Will Self has the scratching of post-war Britain, so much so that, by the end, nothing is left but scabs and pus.

Dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism, the Wobblies alienated just about everybody when they preached atheism, waved the Red Flag and denounced American troops as "Uncle Sam's scabs in uniform".

Its dispassionate account of the little girl's symptoms and recovery is brought to life by grim 20th-century photographs of individuals infected with the disease.Inoculation, which saw ground up smallpox scabs introduced into the skin to induce a mild form of the disease and subsequent immunity, was not without its risks.

And this is not the first time that rogue samples have been discovered: a cache turned up in eastern Europe in the 1990s, and in 2003 an envelope full of scabs from 19th-century vaccinations was found in a library in New Mexico.