How to Use fester in a Sentence

fester

verb

• We should deal with these problems now instead of allowing them to fester.
• His feelings of resentment have festered for years.
• His wounds festered for days before he got medical attention.
• The bad blood festered for months.
  — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
• And, yet, concerns festered all the same.
  — Noah Furtado, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2026
• Those festering secrets are now out in the open and ready to tear the town apart.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
• This film has likely been festering a good while.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2026
• Allen drives off, leaving Lee to fester in the trunk for who knows how long.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
• But the fringe is where ideas can fester and become dangerous.
  — Stephanie Halmhofer, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2021
• And what that means is that festering problems are postponed.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 16 June 2026
• In fact, that problem is festering.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
• But since then, the problem has continued to fester.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2026
• But this implosion has been festering for some time.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
• The bad blood that had festered between the two competitors came to a boiling point.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
• Without any form of detection, the issue is bound to fester and grow.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• By that point, many of the issues that would cause its demise had already begun festering.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• But that leaves the rest of the issues between them beyond the seas to continue to fester.
  — Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
• The festering issue has spurred three wars between the countries.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• Nearly 10% of the bulls died, their corpses thrown overboard or left to fester in the pens among the living.
  — Kevin Varley, Fortune, 8 July 2021
• This gap and others allow contaminants to fester in schools across the state.
  — Lulu Ramadan, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2022
• There’s a fair amount of body horror here, beginning with a bee-stung hand that continues to fester and flake.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 27 Aug. 2021
• These socks also won’t smell as odor-causing bacteria can’t fester on alpaca wool.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2023
• Hate can quickly fester and grow, and even one incident can be a warning sign of a larger problem.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2022
• The temperatures rose to triple digits, as the water that would not recede festered in the sun.
  — Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda and Saiyna Bashir, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
• Without those, even simple injuries can fester and the limb may need to be amputated.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024
• When a team’s brightest star is frustrated and upset, that’s a problem that will either fester or get healed.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 May 2021
• Then again, maybe nothing changes, and this entire mess might just continue to fester into a needless grudge match.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 19 Sep. 2021
• As the police department’s ranks shrank, crime festered, both aboveground and below.
  — Kevin Lozano, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
• But that’s only if the Hurricanes can make sure this one loss doesn’t fester into something more.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
• Letting these feelings build up and fester can quickly lead to burnout and, in the worst cases, resignation.
  — Steven Salaets, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022