Sample Sentences for
fester
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  • Bad morale has festered in the department for years.
    festered = grew worse over time
  • No need to fester it.  (source)
    fester = make it worse
  • The harm you did to him will fester and pain you all of your life unless you're able to make up for it.  (source)
    fester = get worse
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  • And worst of all, the smell of festering flesh.†  (source)
  • She says sometimes you have to scream out emotions; if you don't, they'll fester.†  (source)
  • But if you had the same hole and no maggots you simply festered for a while and then you had gangrene.  (source)
    festered = suffered inflammation and created pus
  • To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.†  (source)
  • Madness lurked behind them, two festering pools of sickness.†  (source)
  • Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.†  (source)
  • His ankle festered, maggots hatched in it, and Garrett began to run a high fever.†  (source)
  • Outcast, misunderstood, and alone, Lee Harvey Oswald, who considers himself a great man, destined to accomplish great things, festers in a quiet rage.†  (source)
  • But as I was saying, beneath all that festering nastiness is a tender, kind, loving human being.†  (source)
  • In the Sahara they'll fester and rot and fall out of your head.†  (source)
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