FESTER in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for FESTER, such as:

1. If not, why, let 'em fester in.'
2. Just when she needed her strength most, this toe had to fester.
3. By way of healing the rusty fester of the poisoned dart she sought the face that all day long she had been seeking.
4. She slipped off her worn shoe and, barefooted, she pattered swiftly to the bureau, not even feeling her festered toe.
5. The preacher's knife had probed deeply into his disclosed conscience and he felt now that his soul was festering in sin.

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 Meanings and Examples of FESTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fester
 v.  undergo decay; infect, inflame, or corrupt;
Classic Sentence:
1  If not, why, let 'em fester in.'
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
2  By way of healing the rusty fester of the poisoned dart she sought the face that all day long she had been seeking.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
3  Just when she needed her strength most, this toe had to fester.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  The insult was terrible, and although unknown to the rest of the world, I felt it live and fester at the bottom of my heart.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
5  They were the drainage of the great festering ulcer of society; they were hideous to look upon, sickening to talk to.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
6  I have frequently felt her head, and found it nearly covered with festering sores, caused by the lash of her cruel mistress.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  The preacher's knife had probed deeply into his disclosed conscience and he felt now that his soul was festering in sin.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  His sins trickled from his lips, one by one, trickled in shameful drops from his soul, festering and oozing like a sore, a squalid stream of vice.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentleness, that will heal, instead of festering, the wounds of our minds.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  Most of them were disfigured by frost-bitten noses and cheeks, and nearly all had red, swollen and festering eyes.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER VI
11  She slipped off her worn shoe and, barefooted, she pattered swiftly to the bureau, not even feeling her festered toe.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence:
1  Letting the problem continue to fester is not an option; it could well provoke another crisis and outbreak of more general fighting through out the region.