Scab is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like rat or strikebreaker. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Scab in a sentence
Related words
Scab meaning
- An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- The scabies.
- The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
Using Scab
- The main meaning on this page is: An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. | The scabies. | The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
- Useful related words include: blackleg, rat, strikebreaker, worker.
- In the example corpus, scab often appears in combinations such as: apple scab, of scab, scab over.
Context around Scab
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 14 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scab
- In this selection, "scab" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, apple, green, former, cab, noles and legislation stand out and add context to how "scab" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a green scab and always a scab. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scab" sits close to words such as abdur, abrasion and abscess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scab
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Once a scab, always a scab. (6 words)
It eventually forms a scab that falls off. (8 words)
A fresh wound hurts, until a scab forms to protect it. (11 words)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a stop in Windsor Thursday to meet with local unionized workers, leaders, and seniors, and tout the Liberal’s federal anti-scab legislation, among other hot-button local issues. (34 words)
Rather than trying harder to arrive at an agreement, the Ministry of Education, according to reports, appears to be more concerned with hiring scab-labour to counter the teachers’ threat. (30 words)
A young beautician who was forced to hide her sore, scab-like skin on holiday has discovered that food intolerances were the cause of her numerous health problems. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Once a scab, always a scab.
Gala apples are fairly susceptible to apple scab, but Honeycrisp is resistant to apple scab,” said Cox.
But eight hours later his hand doubled in size and formed a green scab.
It’s not as raw as it used to be, there’s kind of a scab from there, but it still hurts every day.
Photo: Mountain SceneThe owner of an Arrowtown taxi company that has bought a company comprising former ‘scab cab’ cabbies promises they’ll behave.
The peculiar lump started off flat but grew and as she kept knocking it, would scab over.
This comes after Ryan Reynolds tweeted, “I look forward to screaming ‘scab’ at my 8 year old all night.
Mrs. Delia Noles and children, of Jasper, spent a few days last week with Uncle Scab Noles and other relatives who live here.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a stop in Windsor Thursday to meet with local unionized workers, leaders, and seniors, and tout the Liberal’s federal anti-scab legislation, among other hot-button local issues.
These are the ‘scab-pickers,’ constantly focusing on problems rather than solutions.
A giant, inflatable rat outside the union hall decried corporate greed as workers fumed over the hiring of “scab” workers and political leaders got involved.
A young beautician who was forced to hide her sore, scab-like skin on holiday has discovered that food intolerances were the cause of her numerous health problems.
By that season, Diane’s lack of connection to being Vietnamese had hardened into a scab ready for picking.
Sometimes it catches us off guard, revealing a scar or scab, a truth-telling character line or woeful flaw we didn’t know we had.
The Communication Center in Houston, Texas, noted the horse crew’s beacon had begun moving towards Scab Creek and had turned their emergency “911” message to “OK” mode.
The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.
A former cheerleader has revealed how an odd-looking scab on her forehead turned out to be life-threatening.
A fresh wound hurts, until a scab forms to protect it.
It eventually forms a scab that falls off.
Rather than trying harder to arrive at an agreement, the Ministry of Education, according to reports, appears to be more concerned with hiring scab-labour to counter the teachers’ threat.
Common combinations with scab
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- apple scab 3×
- of scab 3×
- scab over 2×
- or scab 2×
- scab that 2×