| The uneven pavement was constructed of badly cracked flagstones and potholed by menacing holes where black water festered from past rain showers. |
| Sores festered on her face and arms and a terrible stench clung to the air surrounding her. |
| I can assure readers that a piece of spaghetti that has festered in the bottom of a sink for 24 hours looks much the same. |
| The council meeting was inconclusive and, instead of going away, the matter festered and more information leaked out. |
| Where open wounds festered, the flies were so thick as to make the wound seem to be a writhing metallic black mass. |
| Her only hope now was that he might yet die a slow death if the wound festered. |
