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How to use fester in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Fester means a fistula. Example: “Deal with the problem immediately; do not let it fester.”

Examples of fester by meaning

verbTo become septic; to become rotten.

  • Because I could not command the Chungli sanitation department directly—it is administered at the local level—piles of garbage began to fester on the streets.2014, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 240
  • Don't expect anything new from her human counterparts, though, just the usual shooting and running and hiding slowly festering flesh wounds.2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The A.V. Club...

verbTo worsen, especially due to lack of attention.

  • Deal with the problem immediately; do not let it fester.
  • But the longer the problems are left to fester, the worse they will become.2024 April 3, Philip Haigh, “Discord over Avanti West Coast is part of a wider problem”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 53
  • It chimed with an entire discourse of white identity politics festering on the US right.2026 January 21, David Smith, “Trump paints himself as great white hope in racism-drenched Davos speech”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived...

More sentences with fester

  • Strains of anti-Semitism have long festered on the American right.2025 December 23, Franklin Foer, “J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test”, in The Atlantic. From the entry bigotry
  • Those who experienced the harassment firsthand warned that if not taken seriously, the behaviors underlying Gamergate would fester.2025 March 23, Harmeet Kaur, “How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become”, in CNN. From the entry gamergate
  • If I leave, it's going to fester.2018 January 11, Athol Magarac, Kintsugi. From the entry serophobe
  • Rather, it festers in a myriad of ways.2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, “The Inner World of Grief”, in On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief through the…. From the entry shelve
  • The current, predominantly right-wing perception is of the Balkans as a contagious disease, an infectious sore in the soft underbelly of Europe, best left to fester in isolation.2014, Christian Promitzer, Siegfried Gruber, Harald Heppner, editors, Southeast European Studies in a Globalizing World, LIT Verlag…. From the entry soft underbelly

Meaning of fester

  1. noun A fistula.
  2. noun A sore or an ulcer of the skin.
  3. noun The condition of something that festers; a festering; a festerment.

Full definition of fester

Questions about fester in a sentence

How do you use fester in a sentence?
Fester is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Deal with the problem immediately; do not let it fester.”
What is a short sentence with fester?
“If I leave, it's going to fester.”
What does fester mean?
Fester means a fistula.

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