Sentence examples for wound fester from inspiring English sources

We can either "get back" at someone and let the wound fester, or attend to self-healing.

But the lasting wound festers in disparate corners of New York.

The wound festers and the other Greeks, fearful of the bad omen, abandon him on an island.

The memory of the Vietnam War, that self-inflicted American wound, festered for decades after the nominal end of hostilities, in 1975.

And we suppress the pain until the wound festers, and you get angry at yourself for getting hurt in the first place.

The silence that surrounded it for decades left the wound festering, before Ukraine's independence brought new life to the issue.

But though he had fashioned a poultice of ripe juniper berries and the bark of the Borneo poplar and fastened the contraption with the twined root of huckleberry, still he limped and still the wound festered.

And the wound festers when there is evidence that the pain is not equitably distributed, that a chosen few at the top of the corporate hierarchy maintain their perks or have their exit eased with a golden parachute.

Philoctetes was a Greek warrior who had been bitten by a snake and abandoned on his way to the Trojan Wars; his wound festered and stank and he moaned piteously.

The wound festered for the remainder of his life and became ulcerated, thus preventing him from maintaining the level of physical activity he had previously enjoyed.

Still the wounds fester, 50 years on.