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"scab" Definitions
  1. [countable] a hard dry layer that forms over and covers a wound on the skin as it gets better
  2. [countable] (informal, disapproving) a worker who refuses to join a strike or takes the place of somebody on strike synonym blackleg
  3. [uncountable] a skin disease of animals
  4. [uncountable] a disease of plants, especially apples and potatoes, that causes a rough surface

160 Sentences With "scab"

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It's sick, like pulling off a scab; it's also familiar, like pulling off a scab.
It's healed over, but it's a scab, and every time those people roll into town it's like somebody has ripped the scab off and it all floods back.
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Scrabs are made into Scab Cakes, and Abe saves them.
A joke that is as sensitive as sandpaper to a scab.
Don't pick at the scab or try to rub flakes off.
Check out the huge scab on the side of his neck.
As these blisters rupture on their own, the area forms a scab.
But the slightest bump, the smallest provocation, and the scab tears off.
Taking a position as a scab would be a huge step backwards.
Yet decades later, it remains a giant nuclear scab on the landscape.
Through it all, Shane calls Jack "Scab," a name with a history.
What Clinton said Wednesday, however, will rip off the scab from 2016.
"This feels like picking a scab the American public wants healed," Slavitt said.
"At least I'm not a scab like you," one of the men replied.
Exactly half a year later, she married an ignorant butcher named Chazkele Scab.
Isn't it just the worst when you get a scab on a knuckle?
I consider Sagawa repellent, and the movie an exercise in intellectualized scab-picking.
"It will be like ripping the scab off," he is quoted as saying.
And no matter how you cover it, the scab will keep coming off.
Who wants to see a play that yanks the scab from unhealed wounds?
It's a scab that's been ripped open again and again for these black men.
They look like small pimples or blisters, and they eventually burst and then scab over.
One Week Later:After the scab has faded, you may be left with a dark spot.
Pinching them free with fingernails is deeply satisfying, though you'll bleed, then scab, then scar.
Overall disease pressure was light, although scouts noted some instances of scab and stem maggot.
It's both the healed, ready-to-fall-off scab, and the wound that produced it.
Twenty-one years later, in the "Age of Trump," the scab of impeachment that Sen.
The exercise seemed like picking at a scab, but maybe it was therapeutic as well.
And by picking the Obamacare scab, Trump is energizing and inflaming Democrats and many independents.
But over the years that scab got bigger, into this big hard growth it is today.
Law enforcement sources say the mark under Lange's nose is a scab that started to bleed.
Or maybe you perversely want to pick at your barely suppressed existential panic like a scab.
After an application of zelyonka, a wound dries and forms a scab within a few hours.
Football, he said, was like a scab, ripped open every time a fan mentioned the glory days.
The scab is tiny, indicating I barely scratched it after the bite, but there's still something there.
Any person with a scab larger than a dime could come to my apartment in Coney Island.
Jackson: Every time I go back, it pulls a scab off and the wound is still raw.
If the driver was "a scab" and refused, the email said, the member should cancel the ride.
Her thumb was shockingly ugly, the raw flesh on the tip covered by a thick black scab.
For the time being, Tesla is just a scab to GM and Ford, albeit an annoying one.
Lots of very fresh clues and entries today; I liked ROSARY and RIOT ACT, SCAB and BURL.
" In all of her books, Nelson picks at the underbelly of certainty and finds scabs—the white-male-patriarchy scab, the smug-female-thinker scab, the academic scab—and yet she gives these voices a place in her work, because, as her friend the novelist Rachel Kushner put it, "she knows exactly what kind of language, at this moment, what kind of views, are important, but she also understands that people are vulnerable and they get things wrong, not through malicious intent.
Squeeze it, and you'll most likely be left with a long-lasting scar or impossible-to-conceal scab.
People like to scratch at their artwork like it's a scab, and I try not to do that.
One choice is to energize the partisan base with sharp-edged rhetoric and cultural and ideological scab-picking.
"It picks at what's been a very, very bad scab for Republicans for a long time," Heye said.
I wondered if he realized that, in riling up angry whites, he has pulled the scab off racism.
Sadly the powers that be overturn every rock, scab, and snicker he makes to make him seem worse.
The tour underwent a re-examination of its legacy, and old controversies were picked at like a scab.
"This thread has pulled the scab off a festering wound," one employee wrote in the email thread, per Quartz.
They also ripped the scab off the barely healed wound of the bitter primary feud between Clinton and Sanders.
"It's a scab that never heals 'cause it's being picked at all the time by other people," he continued.
The disease causes a spotted rash around infected peoples' faces and bodies, which turns into pustules that scab over.
I'm not going to give Life is Strange: Before the Storm a pass for its use of scab labor.
If he ripped off the scab, as he puts it, and found there's nothing healthy underneath, so be it.
Trump has openly expressed his frustration with NATO many times in the past, and Carlson picked at that scab.
It dries into a scab of resin, which is harvested and sold raw, or turned into oil or incense.
A scab might form over the area within the week and if it does, you know the drill — no picking.
It usually takes about 48 hours for the painful blisters to form, which can then become pigmented and scab over.
"This thread has pulled the scab off a festering wound," a Microsoft employee wrote in the email chain, Quartz reported.
The 2 have managed to remain amicable, though ... but this clip might just rip the scab off the healing wound.
They say your brain chews on it, but it's more like picking at a scab So you know what, AL?
In fact, a scab committed the strike's only threat of violence when he pulled out a gun to intimidate strikers.
But eventually the pressure would grow too great and the lava scab would fracture to release a burst of gas.
"Once the scab forms, it delays healing, and you're more prone to scratch and pick at those scabs," Dr. Fusco says.
Her dad said her only complaint over the next couple of days was itching on her head, where the scab was.
"Scab" was the lowest thing a man could be called, "coal" was a way of life, and "protest" was an unknown.
Then young people read the report, for all the same reasons you pick at a scab, and completely lose their minds.
Everyone picks once in awhile, and that's totally normal — popping the occasional zit, tweezing an ingrown hair, prodding at a scab.
But it was the perfect environment for Puberty 2, an album Mitski spends picking at her psyche like it's a troublesome scab.
It's just a matter of time before she catalyzes Brodie, Reggie and the others to start tearing the scab off this thing.
"You need to come back, and you need to rip the scab off," said Brian Kelly, a staff member on the team.
Hours later, sports reporters said Brown had a bruise and scab on his face before a game that night against the Brooklyn Nets.
In what other context can you imagine Haley Joel Osment getting to tackle the morally complex role of a union leader turned scab?
Those proceedings, and their inevitably sensationalized news coverage, would "peel off a scab," he said, for families who had just started to heal.
The next post was from a man and featured photos of a large wound on his ribs and the scab that had fallen off.
And while Pantaleo's career hangs in the balance, a mother's grief remains, with each emotional scab reopened at every departmental hearing, anniversary and rally.
The dispute turns bar-hand Oscar into a scab and elicits white nativism befitting of a Breitbart column from Tracey and her son Jason.
I pursed my lips at myself in the mirror, wrinkling my nasty scab, as I pulled on a sequined top before the first party.
Brazile's comments rip a scab off a wound that plagued the Democratic Party during last year's primary and charge the Clinton campaign with impropriety.
The world as I understand it is in a state of healing, but maybe I'm too much the sort who loves to pick a scab.
The past leaves scars, but this is still a scab – something that can be picked at and undone at will, setting the healing process back.
We'd debride your scab, fry it with seasonings, and feed it to you—or another member of your party—on a dollhouse platter, with garnish.
He pinched the edge of a scab on our body politic and began to tug, revealing all the racism, resentments and partisan fury beneath it.
Instead, he spends almost the entire movie picking at the scab that is Bruce Wayne's anger over the Metropolis disaster that concluded Man of Steel.
The inside of my mouth still tasted like a scab from the drugs, and I wore a knit cap in spite the late summer heat.
I can unplug from social media, meditate, do yoga, practice whatever self-care is in my repertoire, but the scab is off and the pain returns.
Not long after, a year-old scab was ripped off when news broke that Devin Faraci, the former editor-in-chief of the movie website Birth.Movies.
He was cut so many times by the throne that he earned another moniker in addition to the Mad King — he was also called King Scab.
What I hate is the warmth, the heat, the need to put on my summer clothes or overheat like the leather interior of a scab-ridden car.
I touch the scab and check it in the mirror on the sun visor after I pull into regional airport, where we can get a helicopter up.
Salt Bae, whose name is Nusret Gökçe, has a second New York City restaurant opening soon on Park Avenue, and is using scab labor to build it.
Switch to satellite view, though, and you'll see Owens Lake for what it really is: a discolored scab left behind by a lake that no longer exists.
Before I take a final look Nadia reminds me that after my brows scab and heal, the strokes will be thinner and lighter than they currently appear.
Mass shootings flood our feeds, our papers, then seem to retreat quietly like a social scab through inaction and thoughts and prayers, till the next one emerges.
It really sucks that, with all the beautiful relationship-building and scene-setting and hits-you-right-there writing, Before the Storm was produced, essentially, with scab labor.
The first sign of a spotted fever is an eschar, or a dark brown scab on the tick bite, which can take up to a week to appear.
As anime began to pick at the scab left by two deep American wounds, the role race plays in that conflict is often obfuscated by the medium itself.
But Hillary resurfacing as a presidential candidate would pick off that ugly scab, creating a toxic intramural dynamic that would infect the outcome of 2020 and well beyond.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A group of private equity companies have bid around 200 billion Swedish crowns ($22.26 billion) for the hygiene arm of tissue and forestry products firm SCA (SCAb.
After a while, the area will form an eschar (a giant type of scab) that will fall out in a huge clump, leaving behind a hole with scar tissue.
That's true no matter what an investigation eventually uncovers about the Milwaukee shooting, which is the latest event to pull off the scab that is police/African-American relations.
"Remembering that is like taking the scab off a wound, the pain comes back, " said Manuel Cuc of the torture and humiliation, such as soldiers peeing in his mouth.
The skin reaction can start as soon as 15 minutes after exposure and it usually takes about 48 hours for blisters to form, which then become pigmented and scab over.
But it hurts to see it in this context: it's a game whose developers made a point of hiring scab labor and undercutting union solidarity in order to tell their story.
So, reality check, East Coasters: as long as we're living on a 200 million-year-old scab of slow-peeling rock, occasional shakeups are going to be a part of life.
But if the workers at your local unionized grocery store want to keep Oreo cookies created at a scab factory off the shelves, they face steep fines, effectively banning the practice.
SCAB contains AB, BCE contains BC and SWAYZE contains YZ. The set we're looking for is [AB, BC, CD, ... XY, YZ] There are, in fact, 7 pairs of alphabetically consecutive letters.
Such slurs pick at an open scab, that of school districts in the South repeatedly showing up at the bottom of educational lists and too high on lists about heart disease.
It took six weeks for most of it to go away, but I can still feel the residual acid working in my chin, with a pain slightly more intense than a scab.
Brown had a bruise and scab on his face before a game between the Bucks and the Brooklyn Nets that was played later on the day of his arrest, according to WISN.
The dancers embrace then recoil from one another's touch so often that this action-reaction sequence comes to feel inevitable, and like a fixation of the choreographer, a scab he keeps picking.
Picking at the scab of respectability, she reveals a football-crazed culture of misogyny and entitlement that resulted in the brutal abuse of an unwary teenager too inebriated to recall her ordeal.
But the practice has taken on a new edge under the specter of a White House that came to power by picking at the old, undried scab of "law and order" politics.
They say your brain chews on it, but it's more like picking at a scab, not thinking it'll come off and then it does and your scrape is all gross and oozy again.
My grammy's father, Ezra, moved the family there after his job in Thurmond either got too competitive or the conflict with scab labor and the fallout from the mine wars got too hot.
It's a fascinating failure, one that picks at the scab of the tension at the heart of Destiny 2: Is this a money-making AAA shooter loot treadmill, or is it something more?
Christmas is just miserable for a lot of people—empty chairs, ghosts (real and imagined), memories that would otherwise scab over with time that instead re-open for few set days every year.
"Having a man like Trump be so disrespectful of women, it pulled a scab off some ugliness in this country," said Ms. Ray, who founded the local Center for Economic Empowerment and Development.
Ly takes a day of national unity -- France's 2018 FIFA World Cup win -- and picks at the scab, finding uneasy truces between this group and that, always ready, it seems, to flare up.
The bar's tenuous ecosystem unravels: economic anxiety begets racial resentment (Tracey thinks that Cynthia got the promotion because she's black), xenophobia (a Colombian busboy who works as a scab is targeted), and violence.
Tanya Czernozukow, 43, thought nothing of it when she nicked her right shin with a razor in April 2016 and ignored it when it turned into a scab about the size of a nickel.
What had been a kind of boggy scab before the game turned into a steady drip and then very nearly into a full-on leak; the pen would be called on for 25 outs.
"If we think of fascism as a wound from the past that had almost healed, putting Trump in the White House was like ripping off the bandage and picking at the scab," she writes.
He brought in scab workers, and judging by one complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), those workers were overworked and didn't have time to care about how filthy the entire hotel had gotten.
In the case of my skin, I literally formed a Jorah of Andal-style scab on my eyelid called contact dermatitis, because it was so cold outside and so dry in my heated home.
I suppose it's good that when a scab announces themselves out loud like that in case you're planning any union agitation, but they're still going in the nemesis bin, don't you worry about that.
" The day after his visit to the motel, now home to the National Civil Rights Museum, Jackson told CNN that being on the balcony peeled back the scab of "a wound that remains raw.
Released in 1993, with the embers of the riots still smoldering, the Joel Schumacher film Falling Down picked at the scab of the city's fresh wounds with a novel subversion of the justice porn genre.
Normally we deal in shitholes, in large scab-like folds of wallpaper seeping with damp, in crevices, in no natural light, in doors that open immediately into kitchens, in beds that fold up into sofas.
He had been recruited as a scab motorman during a strike by locomotive engineers protesting the B.R.T.'s failure to follow the War Labor Board's order to rehire 291 employees fired for their union activities.
The main threat is now fusarium, also known as head blight or scab, that can hit both yield and quality, although it was seen as too early to gauge any losses before harvesting starts next month.
Because the system is cleaner than older methods, it allows producers to tap earlier without fear that the trees will plug the holes, the way a scab covers a cut, before the sap begins to flow.
Like picking at a scab, I talk to people knowledgeable in venture who nod their heads at the idea that I'd have trouble getting funded, no matter how well the model worked or the software functioned.
A 5-year-old named Leo sat surrounded by toys on the floor of his bedroom in Brooklyn this week marked with some classic little-boy touches: hair in his eyes and a scab on one knee.
But King Jack's royal title was erased by his own brother, Tom, who also disabused Jack of his notions of humanity by punching him repeatedly and saying he was less than a person, nothing more than a scab.
Berry and Mel and Sue declined to follow the money and carry on with the show, though Hollywood had no such qualms and has been villainized as a "scab" as sorts for participating in the GBBO's unwelcome new makeover.
The great folk singer and champion of the people Pete Seeger, with a wee bit of sarcasm, used to tell union members not to waste their pity on the scab taking the side of the bosses during a strike.
"They will look dark for the next two or three days, then begin to scab," she says, adding that the healing process will take around four weeks at which point, I'll need to come in for a touch up.
We've already suppressed our constant cravings for lasers, nihilism, and aliens, but pop culture-remixer extraordinaire Eclectic Method has just picked the scab back open with a nostalgia-inducing dance remix of the show's catchiest phrases and iconic moments.
It is a scab that is reopened every time an A-list Hollywood actor speaks in a distorted, haunting drawl to try to sound genuine when portraying down-on-their-luck, unsophisticated Southern-based characters on the big screen.
And on Wednesday, he delivered a self-inflicted wound that even the strategists who had sworn off predicting his demise thought won't scab over immediately, when he said that there should be "some form of punishment" for women who have abortions.
The best thing about Vine — which has been dead now for over a year, and yet the wound still feels fresh, as every abysmal, boring, and rude day online rips the scab off anew — was the six-second time limit.
"They need to come in and rip the scab off the message that hurt Gianforte last year," said Evan Barrett, a nearly 50-year veteran of Montana Democratic politics, alluding to the ad assault Democrats unleashed over Mr. Gianforte's lawsuit.
" Claudia Puig at USA Today compared the film to its opening scene, which shows Jennifer (Megan Fox) picking at a healing scab: "While intending to reveal something creepy and hidden from view, it lacks a sense of suspense and real twisted-ness.
This obscures the critical distinction between ordinary self-grooming (who doesn't occasionally pick a scab or pluck a hair?), and the clinical case where the behavior goes on and on, causing significant distress or impairment, while the person feels wholly unable to stop.
Tonight's show is a direct response to the Republican National Convention that has taken over the city like a bacterial disease and, after an opening day that went by without too much incident, things started to mutate, scab, and rot through the city today.
Add the amplifying effects of a modern news media whose pliability must constantly be repurchased through a complex system of trades and favors, and then add the online anarchy of social media that picks the scab off every rumor and defies any traditional form of control.
I'm also glad this woman asked me to take the time—the same amount of time I would have spent picking at an ankle scab or reloading Snapchat—to explore the rest of my body in a manner that had never occurred to me: thoughtfully, sensually, compassionately.
Try firing a gun into a cave, selling bootleg dentures, sending a scab through the mail or cutting a dollar bill in half: all federal crimes for which you can technically be punished but probably won't be, as Mike Chase's "How to Become a Federal Criminal" temptingly explains.
Stuck to the rehearsal-room wall were clues to their world: research images of the Hormel factory, which inspired the set; shots of the National Guardsmen, wearing boots like the ones that figure ominously in Davis's production; a newspaper photo of a worker's garage, the word SCAB burned into it, menacingly.
THANK YOU return to the emetic, scab-peeling noise they've made their name on, over which they chant and squelch out tales of apocalypsis, injustice, and suicidal ideation (A telling lyric from "WATER," a song that wishes death upon those destroying the environment: "I don't know what it's gonna look like / I just know nothing's going to be alright").
As some Republicans and those ideologically or morally opposed to President Clinton  metaphorically got ready to storm the White House with pitchforks and torches, Dole knew the impeachment process was not only at least tainted by the perception of partisanship, but was increasingly divisive for the nation and would leave a scab that might take years to heal.
A self-driving Waymo minivan being driven by its human operator crashed in Chandler, Arizona, Friday afternoon, threatening to resurrect tough questions about the safety of autonomous technology and rip the barely-crusted scab off the technology's reputation, which was badly wounded when an Uber self-driving car hit and killed a pedestrian in the same state just seven weeks ago.
My love of everything disgusting, frightening, disturbing, or upsetting escalated in my early teens, when we moved even further up into the part of New York that's basically Canada—a sunless scab of a military base pockmarking the route to the Adirondacks, which are forested mountains chock full of creatures that will deeply and absolutely kill you, many of them human people.
But afterward he was tired; he had a headache and his arms hurt—more so than when he had violently tugged the scab of the petrol cap from the rump of the Maruti—and he stayed up all night on the bed of the spinsters, his head throbbing and the city mocking him with its million nocturnal honks, wondering: What will it be for?
But the same situation that led to the rise of Facebook Instant Articles despite them giving Facebook vastly more power over publishers will dictate things here: Facebook needs publishers' content, but it doesn't need any one particular publisher, and since the independent outlets could never unionize for a boycott since a few would likely scab and still publish there, they're all at the mercy of the social network.
While many of the Telltale employees previously working on Telltale's adaptation of The Walking Dead were hired by Skybound Studios (producers of The Walking Dead comic series), the layoffs nonetheless raised some important questions Unlike some other industries, games had few to no safety nets or reliable methods of confrontation for workers unjustly laid off or abused on the job, and the possibility of striking without union protection left their jobs vulnerable to scab labor rushing in to fill the vacuum of unworked jobs.
Multiple times over the years, I've taken the following issues to doctors, only to be dismissed without discovering a cause: six weeks of debilitating stomach pain; two years of bleeding during sex; persistent anxiety; birth control problems; a cancer-y-looking scab that re-forms on my much-sunburned nose every time I pick it off; an irregular heartbeat that skips regularly; a mystery issue identified by a walk-in clinic that then couldn't read the doctor's handwriting well enough to tell me what the issue was.

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