How To Use Festering In A Sentence
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Only a legitimate government can tackle the festering grievances in the north.
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His series meticulously documents festering food in the most well-lit and sterile environment possible.
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Community and self respect must be returned to the underclass or there will never be enough social workers to prevent this underside of Britain festering.
Archive 2007-11-18
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Also, because brodifacoum causes an unslakable thirst, mice often venture outside in search of water just before they die - which leaves homeowners with fewer rodent carcasses festering in their walls.
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That terrible festering secret of yours that burdens you, the hypocrisy of your life.
The Sun
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We could be in for a period like the late 19th century, of festering economic and social problems, failed one-term presidencies, and partisan oscillation in Congress.
Robert Kuttner: What Now for the Democrats?
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But for almost a month now it's been covered with these festering piles of garbage.
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The true sky-scraper is beautiful — and this is the reluctant admission of a man who dislikes humanity-festering cities.
The House Beautiful
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Or is it more likely a case of increased recognition of the harsh reality that acute financial problems are festering beneath the surface of the U.S. and global Credit systems?
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Calling the long-awaited regulation a "landmark safety achievement" that resolves pilot-fatigue issues that have been festering since the 1970s, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Wednesday said the changes were based on the latest scientific sleep research.
FAA Mandates Longer Rest Periods for Pilots
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An assortment of half-empty aluminium trays and polystyrene cups were festering on top of the washing up along with empty lager cans.
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It was populated by festering drifts of trash, with large dumpsters rising out of the junk like weird islands, and a few old-fashioned tin trashcans here and there.
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This is aggravating an already festering situation produced by outbreaks of malaria, dengue fever, hepatitis-A, leptospirosis, cholera and other diarrheal diseases.
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Cash's cover invokes an image of an epic judgment day for a planet festering with failed lovers.
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She lifts up the gray carpet and finds the steak, festering away.
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It was festering like a sore.
The Sun
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Another bear suffered serious burns to its legs and chest, resulting in festering wounds and fever.
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Even if he is acquitted, there is still a festering boil on his reputation.
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This week's veg box has arrived but half of last week's is still festering in the veg drawer.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it has left many festering problems.
A Rock and a Hard Place
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Just found a mangey jug of my home-made face mask which has been festering in my room for the past few days.
Long time no.......write?
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Seemingly every festering issue of his presidency was thrust into plain view.
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Jack drinks to the nagging, festering sense of regret that torments his sleep.
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We are best friends but this problem has been festering for ages.
The Sun
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They in turn must not convolve the agenda with festering sores.
Sunil Sharan: Wake up, South Asia, and Smell the Carbon
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What makes these songs so potent is the unmistakable angst festering beneath each one.
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COOPER: Really, because I mean, this is kind of festering, especially among some Republicans and on a lot of conservative radio and stuff.
CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2008
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This festering sore is at last receiving treatment with a costly refit that should make the hitherto ghastly 1960s stand almost unrecognisable.
Times, Sunday Times
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'By Seth's tattered and festering foreskin, I've not had so much sport since I tupped my first ewe!'
River God
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The crop of young people not in education or employment is festering.
Times, Sunday Times
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The news describes the blockage as a mix of "festering food fat mixed with wet wipes".
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The roots of the revolt grew out of the festering hatred for the domineering colonial governor.
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Indeed the book deliberately oversteps any fine lines of political correctness to ventilate the incorrectness of anger and cynicism, the voicing of nasty things that are felt and festering, but usually left unspoken.
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Like a festering sore, it turned nasty last week.
Times, Sunday Times
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a wit-combat by another woman is a festering wound to a clever woman, to be permanently deposed from the leadership of a coterie is a consuming canker.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Due to my fellow apartment dwellers leaving unbelievable amounts of festering food waste in the garbage cans, the management removed them.
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A beggar slouches against a wall, his legs festering with open wounds.
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Every year, this mountain of festering garbage gets bigger.
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This week's veg box has arrived but half of last week's is still festering in the veg drawer.
Times, Sunday Times
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If they had listened to the opponents of the war, they would still be festering in that shack.
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The industrious application of the smallest copper coin procurable, the humble farthing or the halfpenny, speedily converted the most insignificant abrasion of the skin into a festering sore.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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her wounds are festering
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The festering dispute continued through the years with one of the brothers demanding more land.
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That's because people think that if there are no festering blisters on their genitals they're safe and have unprotected sex.
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These are issues which have been festering away for a long time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because otherwise social conventions and inequalities would be unbearably stifling and irksome, and terrible things and events would remain festering in our minds, unaired.
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That could mean only one thing; a cruddy cream doughnut festering beneath the surface.
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Oh what a post that is gonna be, it's been festering for a while let me tell you!
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But it has left many festering problems.
A Rock and a Hard Place
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She had a painful, festering bedsore that grew in size over six months to three inches in diameter.
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This is going to be a festering sore for the man who promised to drain the Washington swamp.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet the arrogant decision to hide these documents away has left a festering sore which has never healed.
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Neyther did it refuse or make resistance to anye sharpe and newe assaulte of loue, which in my stroken and sore wounded heart woulde lye festering and feeding of himselfe.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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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.
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The specter of taking this to the Senate is problematic, largely because it would put Senate Democratic leaders in an awkward position by raising the possibility of a bloody floor fight just as the Dem government is taking power in D.C. And on top of that, having the idea festering out there is probably bad P.R. as they pursue the recount. print share
Franken Camp Downplays Idea That They Want To Take Battle All The Way To The Senate
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The school toilet was a festering, diseased shed at the ravine's edge.
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Social problems that have been festering for decades have exploded in our face.
Times, Sunday Times
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Malvolio (Des McAleer) is a haughty major-domo, but where is his festering self-love and manic insecurity?
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I stashed my shoes in the cubicles outside; in a Japanese bathhouse, street shoes are regarded with a disdain reserved in the West for biological refuse or festering rubbish.
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At a market, tottery old men and women were searching in the garbage thrown in the mud for rotten potatoes, beans, and vegetables, while little children clustered like flies around a festering mass of fruit, thrusting their arms to the shoulders into the liquid corruption, and drawing forth morsels but partially decayed, which they devoured on the spot.
THE DESCENT
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I felt infused with a smug glow of satisfaction until I remembered I had a pile of muddy plant pots festering on my potting table so large it was threatening to engulf me.
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It was festering like a sore.
The Sun
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One poor display does not make a team a bad one, but problems that had been festering broke out into full-blown sores.
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Nevertheless, to ensure that there are no problems still festering, it is our intention to carry out a final audit of the equipment prior to expiry of the warranty agreement.
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He set his teeth with the pain as they pulled him up: there was a wound festering high up on his right arm, on the inner side.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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It doesn't take long for the scab of small-town wholesomeness to be picked off, revealing the perversity festering underneath.
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In the absence of such reasoning and understanding by Dr. Lord , his bitterness continued festering.
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Our gangrened limbs blacken, stink, and fall by the wayside in response to festering injustice.
Solidarity
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The three-hour presentation riled other investors and brought out into the open festering resentment.
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It was clearly festering away with him.
The Sun
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The crop of young people not in education or employment is festering.
Times, Sunday Times
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The clear subtext is that what goes on in the festering ghettos is of no account: just keep it away from us and our children.
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I couldn't even see a collection of mouldy teacups festering on the new wooden floor.
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He dealt with infections, wounds, and coughs caused by the unclean water and festering rubbish dump.
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Festering piles of uncollected trash dot the uneven sidewalks.
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Their festering sexuality squinted at you through their unwashed fringes as they strode in step down the school corridors.
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Anger is already festering there.
The Sun
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These are issues which have been festering away for a long time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like a festering sore, it turned nasty last week.
Times, Sunday Times
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Acres of anxiety-inducing advertising, tedious dadrock and festering beehives of migrainous office blocks.
November « 2008 « Squares of Wheat
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Several experts said campus shootings commonly occur because the shooter has some kind of festering grievance that university officials haven't addressed, and the granting of tenure can be a polarizing and politicized process for many academics.
Alabama Professor Shot, Killed Brother in 1986
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Just to drive in the twenty miles or so from Santa Cruz to Bombay is to confront a festering mass of degrading humanity, for which despite his reading the imagination of the Westerner has not really prepared him.
The Christian Minority in the World of Tomorrow
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The mystery and the bad marriage frustrate the telling of the story, because so much is repressed, unspoken, festering.
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The dynasty crumbled due to a crippling recession and festering corruption.
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Clearly this was a sore that had been festering for some time.
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The leader has been driven by festering anger over his four successive election defeats he blames on fraud.
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Most of us assume our supermarkets are clean and hygienic because of how quickly disease would spread festering meat were left on a grinder.
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Long a festering popular grievance, official corruption has reached endemic levels, with potentially explosive social consequences.
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Though not venomous in the strict sense of the word, the 'goanna's bite generally causes a festering wound on account of the loathsome habits of the creature.
Peeps At Many Lands: Australia
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These are issues which have been festering away for a long time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Away from the gleaming skyscrapers, China's cities are ringed by run-down shacks, with festering heaps of garbage by the roadside.
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Chinamen are living in huts on some festering slime between the river and the jungle; and once a police station on stilts, where six policemen stood in a row and saluted as we passed, and at seven we reached Teluk Kartang, with a pier, a long shed, two or three huts, and some officialism, white and partly white, all in a
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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It was clearly festering away with him.
The Sun
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I tipped my chair backwards so that I could dump my pan onto the pile of dishes festering in the sink.
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Like a festering sore, it turned nasty last week.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was festering like a sore.
The Sun
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Besides, wouldn't it be a wonderful world if the kind of festering plebs who sit twiddling on their phones – and would thus presumably rather watch a movie on it than on the big screen – actually stayed at home and did precisely that, thereby meaning the rest of us could enjoy an idiot-free cinema experience?
Ridley Scott To Direct Angry Russell Crowe Nottingham Flick
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But it has left many festering problems.
A Rock and a Hard Place
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I unintentionally popped a scab with a lot of festering pus.
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They let the small wound turn into a festering infection.
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By not acknowledging the problem, the church continues to suffer from a festering internal wound.
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This fringe and regional party has shrunk to a festering and rotten core that dishonors the once noble party of Lincoln. timothy
2012 on the ballot at conservative conference
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We are best friends but this problem has been festering for ages.
The Sun
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All parties involved in the festering conflict have agreed to work together in the interest of the party.
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The drug is real enough, as are the gruesome side effects that leave addicts with festering abscesses.
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Britpop, on the other hand, isn't just dead but a festering zombie corpse, its ribcage dangling out of its chest, unmercifully massacring every Quadrophenia revivalist and ill-advised brass section left parping in its wake.
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You have poured oil in the raw and festering wound of an old friend's conscience, Cottle! but it is _oil of vitriol!
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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There's a guilty secret that has been festering away in the depths of my soul for the past few months.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's a guilty secret that has been festering away in the depths of my soul for the past few months.
Times, Sunday Times
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He set his teeth with the pain as they pulled him up: there was a wound festering high up on his right arm, on the inner side.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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Turkeys with festering infections were left to suffer without proper veterinary care.
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The first penetrometer was launched, with vulgar comments from the crew, and two hours later drove like a hypodermic needle into the festering satellite.
2061 Odyssey Three
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Attempts to contain a political crisis over festering garbage were thwarted on several fronts.
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The shooting, which also left three injured, has prompted police and city officials to adopt new measures to tackle what students describe as a festering gang problem at the school on Evergreen just south of Eight Mile.
Detnews.com - Local
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This festering sore is at last receiving treatment with a costly refit that should make the hitherto ghastly 1960s stand almost unrecognisable.
Times, Sunday Times
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This racism is a festering cancer that has developed in their mentalities.
The Sun
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This is going to be a festering sore for the man who promised to drain the Washington swamp.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wound is festering, and gangrene has set in.
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That's why we'd rather not think about all the disasters festering below our floorboards and behind our walls inflicted by cowboy builders.
Times, Sunday Times
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All these years, it's been festering and congealing ......
Sanford on Wilson: 'It's time to move on'
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Every deposit that he leaves lingers on, ineradicable, festering inside my wife, polluting her.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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It has been more than a month since that half-point loss to the league's top team, and you're still festering.
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Its body was covered in festering sores, oozing revolting yellowish pus.
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We are best friends but this problem has been festering for ages.
The Sun
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She took her cousin to Hospital for treatment of a festering foot infection.
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For most of Elizabeth's reign, Ireland remained a festering sore in the Tudor body politic.
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He set his teeth with the pain as they pulled him up: there was a wound festering high up on his right arm, on the inner side.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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He arrived with a festering stomach ulcer that's going to take a few weeks to cure with drugs that cost $194 a week.
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When we brought you in here, the wounds were infected and festering.
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This festering sore is at last receiving treatment with a costly refit that should make the hitherto ghastly 1960s stand almost unrecognisable.
Times, Sunday Times
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You and your friends may not mind empties on the counter, pizza boxes growing mould and dishes festering in the kitchen and bathroom sinks and of course the bathtub, but it may be hazardous to your health.
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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.
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It has been left festering far too long.
The Sun
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For three days Charles remained locked up, his feelings festering and burning inside him.
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Tony Millard, who owns Tone's Bar in London Road, North Cheam, told the Comet huge piles of festering rubbish were building up behind his bar each week because the council had not provided enough waste bins.
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March 26th, 2009 2: 21pm stanley Jerusalem - the sheriff is becoming more and bitter. note his words now descending to "grubby" it could be the arrow festering in the toches or tasting the bitter herbs ahead of pesach - he digs bigger holes for himself with every essay he sends, and for what purpose except possibly to amuse - offen yam you know the beginning alanadale
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Strip clubs are not a festering hive of perverts and deviants.
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On top of this was the smell of unwashed men and their festering wounds, cooking food and fermenting beer, unburied rubbish, and filth, the ammoniacal reek of the latrine pits and the dung heaps, and the even more biting stench of unburied corpses.
Warlock
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The president's alleged plan to run again has been at the heart of the festering crisis.
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There's a guilty secret that has been festering away in the depths of my soul for the past few months.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was able to see a festering protest recrudescing.
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I clasped my nose shut with my fingers and tried to breathe through my mouth, but the smell of rotten eggs and festering garbage was so awful I gave up, and jabbed the button to open the doors in sheer desperation.
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The open sores had been festering unnoticed and to this, he applied some poultices.
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For most of us, checking labels is a thing we do before we throw out food that has been festering in the kitchen, long past its sell-by-date.
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The school toilet was a festering, diseased shed at the ravine's edge.
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For over 30 years, a doubledecker freeway ran through the Hayes Valley neighborhood like a festering wound, but the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the structure sufficiently that it was torn down by Caltrans, and committed neighborhood activists managed to keep the monstrosity from being resurrected.
Adaptations 2: Patricia's Green
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Roiling waters in the streets have given way to festering piles of garbage on the curbs.
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Maybe festering resentment, ingrown anger, and self-hate are the inevitable result of the long years spent in fruitless opposition to the global reach of American power.
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The political system is a festering sore.
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It was clearly festering away with him.
The Sun
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Everyone in the village seems to bear some festering discontent: Mikey is an ill-favoured farm labourer who likes starting fires and despises the handsome new Australian hand who has appeared on the scene.
Hill Farm by Miranda France – review
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I looked in the sink the next day and here's this festering pile of mince meat.
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The street is piled high with festering rubbish as bins were not collected for seven weeks.
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He pulled up his shirt to show a festering wound.
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They described festering garbage pits and said water shipments have been inadequate.
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Plates of baked beans on toast were festering near piles of unfinished homework on the dust covered desk.
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Even the most skilled , most levelheaded player can fail to quell the festering frustration.
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It has been left festering far too long.
The Sun
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This is going to be a festering sore for the man who promised to drain the Washington swamp.
Times, Sunday Times
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But by ignoring the problems now festering in the heartland, Congress and the White House will end up diluting the fiscal stimulus over which they are battling so hard.
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It was the kind of festering sore better left undisturbed.
Trunk Music
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It has been left festering far too long.
The Sun
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Anger is already festering there.
The Sun
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They are a married couple who seem content but not without a hint of festering problems.
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They have never seen leprosy or festering abscesses or sores that do not heal.
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Anger is already festering there.
The Sun
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This week's veg box has arrived but half of last week's is still festering in the veg drawer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of the villagers also suffered from festering sores caused by the pollution.
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Anne limped on a fractured leg with festering wounds.
