Example Sentences

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The resentments of the spring will fester through the summer.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2024

There's the belief we needn't breathe life into our mistakes for fear they will fester.

From Golf Digest • Jun. 26, 2017

And while the focus will be on city infrastructure for the billions of urban dwellers, suburban poverty will fester if those individuals are left isolated outside the city walls.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2016

It`s a wound that we need to tend to, or it will fester and poison us.

From New York Times • May 3, 2016

The notion, for instance, that no wound will fester as long as the instrument by which it was inflicted is kept bright and clean, still prevails extensively among them.

From Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Collins, Wilkie