Example Sentences

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“The crisis from underinvesting was festering before it erupted,” she says.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2021

The nation has a plague of housing instability that was festering long before Covid-19, and the pandemic’s economic toll has only made it worse.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2021

Hogan: Right—if this show was being made in 2016–2017, what it really does is shine a light on just how wrong we all were about what was festering in our culture.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2018

The disease was festering in Guinea’s remote villages and spreading into Sierra Leone and Liberia, fueling the epidemic.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2014

I felt like something ill was festering in my stomach, and my head felt like a piñata stuffed with cotton balls.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall