How To Use Scabby In A Sentence
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He insists on sitting on the mat where the door might slam on him, and on challenging the same old bruiser of a female four doors down, who duffs him up every time, leaving him cut and scabby.
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You got to see galleys and corridors and Wilkie's scabby foot dangling down from the top bunk.
MR STARLIGHT
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It is more like an old Labrador - the kind of scabby dog that is friendly enough but that slobbers on people's trousers when they are seated at the table.
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Latent infection is seen as the scabby, superficial lesions on roots.
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She whimpers as she undoes the bandages completely, revealing a scabby slice the length of her thumb.
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You could argue that they are just misunderstood, but let's face it - They are scabby gits.
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P had dirty blonde dreads, shocking front teeth, and a scabby old dog which gave us all scabies.
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And any time a big speech is needed, they just haul out the scabby guy.
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A ragged pigeon with one scabby leg is slouching wearily on my window-sill.
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You got to see galleys and corridors and Wilkie's scabby foot dangling down from the top bunk.
MR STARLIGHT
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So I used to go to interviews looking like I had been sleeping under London Bridge - you know, pale, scabby old clothes, interesting, artistic.
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Scalp - as long as it is not scabby, shiny or beneath a comb-over - can be stylish, intelligent, tough and modern.
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He scrambled to his feet as if ready for a fight, his legs scabby with old scrapes.
SACRAMENT
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Most feature anomalously crude draftsmanship, scabby surfaces and flat-footed figuration.
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She's standing alone, stringy hair, corduroy skirt, scabby legs sprouting out of Roman sandals.
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The waiting area teemed with children wiping runny noses and scratching scabby skin and adults hacking with chest-rattling coughs.
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Francis Upritchard's scabby shrunken heads are disgustingly ugly - bruised, green skin, old teeth, yucky dandruffy hair.
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He reached out a scabby, bandaged hand and patted my shoulder.
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Details surface in the untouched snaps - stretch marks, scabby knees, boob jobs - and so do the posturings, poses and projections behind the sexual self.
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It has, what looks like a perfectly normal little brown bud but when the sex organs emerge, instead of petals coming out the little scabby petal like structures just drop to the ground.
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He gets whisked off to a badly-run NHS hospital, where a scabby and underpaid nurse who is ill because she can't afford blankets sneezes all over Bob's wound, giving him a nasty lurgy, and he dies.
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Feathers of infested birds are discolored by mite excrement and eggs, and the skin is scabby.
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Feeding by the chigger creates scabby, reddish lesions that require two to three weeks to heal after the engorged mites leave the bird.
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He then proceeded to roll up his trouser leg and show me his very scabby leg.
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I'm just finding it a little difficult to assess because anything scabby with that much fur tends to look much worse than it probably is.
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Modi’s office is on an upper floor of a massive, scabby-faced ministry building in Gandhinagar, the planned city of government workers north of Ahmedabad that is a monument to the flawed architectural schemes of formerly socialist India.
India’s New Face
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When Mickey's body is found, half eaten by dogs, things take a more serious turn, at least for Jill, and the suspects, older literary types, who tend to be pompous and full of their own self importance, are a scabby bunch.
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Sloppy jeans, baggy top, red and sore nose, black bags under my eyes and scabby skin all courtesy of the cold virus.
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It just exists to keep guitar sales up and basements full of scabby punks pissing their days away into a bucket marked ‘excess’.
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And while you might pet a stray dog and accidentally touch a scabby sore or some other yuck, the rabies fears seemed unsubstantiated and the cities haven't taken to rounding up the lot for the public safety.
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She guides your hand to touch the scabby scar that snakes across her head.
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For instance, my high-school self — skinny, scabby, giggly, gabby, frantic to be noticed, tormented enough to be a tormentor, relentlessly pushing his cartoons and posters and noisy jokes and pseudo-sophisticated poems upon the helpless-high school — strikes me now as considerably obnoxious, though I owe him a lot: without his frantic ambition and insecurity I would not now be sitting on (as my present home was named by others) Haven Hill.
John updike | march 18, 1932 – january 27, 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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The boy was wearing some black board shorts, showing off the child's scabby knees.
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A soapy solution was rubbed all over my scabby, bruised and burnt fingers leaving me with a relaxed sensation you wouldn't have believed possible in this part of your body.
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Later, after touching down on the scabby tarmac, I skated through Customs in Lima.
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He had short trousers and scabby knees.
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They rounded off with a scabby diatribe against the black choir in the Seventh Day Adventist Church whose voices lit the evenings.
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In a childish moment I picked the scab from my football knee (footballers who play on AstroTurf always have scabby knees) dark red blood flowed down my leg.
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Scabby mouth (contagious ecthyma, orf) is a highly contagious, viral disease of sheep, goats and occasionally humans.
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If soils drain rapidly or become cool, infected plants often recover, but still may be distorted or produce superficial, scabby lesions.
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He scrambled to his feet as if ready for a fight, his legs scabby with old scrapes.
SACRAMENT
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She's standing alone, stringy hair, corduroy skirt, scabby legs sprouting out of Roman sandals.
