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How to use festering in a sentence

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Oh what a post that is gonna be, it's been festering for a while let me tell you!
Their festering sexuality squinted at you through their unwashed fringes as they strode in step down the school corridors.
Another bear suffered serious burns to its legs and chest, resulting in festering wounds and fever.
Yet the arrogant decision to hide these documents away has left a festering sore which has never healed.
Long a festering popular grievance, official corruption has reached endemic levels, with potentially explosive social consequences.
The mystery and the bad marriage frustrate the telling of the story, because so much is repressed, unspoken, festering.
If they cannot do this, then they should help to remove this festering sore from our statute book and support this bill.
I tipped my chair backwards so that I could dump my pan onto the pile of dishes festering in the sink.
For three days Charles remained locked up, his feelings festering and burning inside him.
I looked in the sink the next day and here's this festering pile of mince meat.
Plates of baked beans on toast were festering near piles of unfinished homework on the dust covered desk.
Fears about festering bags of rubbish behind the store and an increase in traffic in the quiet cul-de-sac are the main reasons for the objection.
For most of Elizabeth's reign, Ireland remained a festering sore in the Tudor body politic.
But for almost a month now it's been covered with these festering piles of garbage.
Jack drinks to the nagging, festering sense of regret that torments his sleep.
One poor display does not make a team a bad one, but problems that had been festering broke out into full-blown sores.
It doesn't take long for the scab of small-town wholesomeness to be picked off, revealing the perversity festering underneath.
From what I could see in the darkness his flesh was purple and soaked with dried blood under his clothes, and some of the wounds were festering.
They have never seen leprosy or festering abscesses or sores that do not heal.
Malvolio is a haughty major-domo, but where is his festering self-love and manic insecurity?
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The boy's right arm was a loathsome sight, festering from a neglected wound.
Until the clansmen had opened and aired the festering sores of their grievances there lay in them no hope of amenability.
He regards them as vermin to be left to languish and die of their festering wounds.
Many of them became afflicted with an itchy, festering skin disease, though otherwise healthy and fat.
When they reached Yaroslavl the wound had begun to fester and the doctor had said that the festering might take a normal course.
He never knew, each time he entered the festering shambles, whether or not he would be able to complete the round.
Pent in their vast and festering charnel-house, all organization and cohesion lost, they could do naught but die.
Every lavatory I enter in the land of nod is about as appealing as the festering bog that swallows Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting.
No, moribund wretches, I am not referring to the Pathetic Snuffle Pandemic that is sweeping these festering isles, causing untold cases of minor inconvenience.
Mix them with oil of orrisroot, or the oil of henna plant, or the oil of camphire plant making an ointment that is then spread over the festering rural ulcers.
Into that little pot goes a festering row between the chairman of the board, Lord Ian MacLaurin and Brian Bolus, new chairman of the England Management Advisory Committee.
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