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Example sentences for: fester

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Taking something away, we cart it off; and scandals fester until the tumbrels roll, the executioner's carts of the French Revolution.
With that final abuse, we called it a night, and I sealed the subjects in a large plastic bag and left them to fester in the corner of my room for two days.
And Lyndon, thought Bobby, was responsible for his brother's being in Dallas at all--to heal a wound in the Texas Democratic Party that Lyndon should never have let fester in the first place.
Sewage and dirty water were thrown from upper floors to the streets below and left to fester.
Spilhaus designed the weather balloon that crashed in Roswell, N.M., in 1947, sparking UFO conspiracy theories that still fester.