1.   By not acknowledging the problem, the church continues to suffer from a festering internal wound.

2.   It was clear to everyone that it would only aggravate the festering wound.

3.   A festering wound would be reopened.

4.   Collins chose to resign because he had exhausted his supply of answers, and the season had become little more than a festering wound.

5.   He said that a gunshot wound to his ankle, sustained during the attack on the clinic, was untreated and that worms wiggled around the festering wound.

6.   Like a festering wound that will not heal, Algeria still torments France, a former colonial master and its enemy in a long and bitter war of liberation.

7.   Some have open festering wounds.

8.   The home into which she was born was no home, more like a festering wound.

9.   The sources of consumer enmity toward a particular country include ongoing political disputes and festering wounds left over from war.

10.   The unsolved case has been a festering wound for the government of President Ernesto Zedillo, which is seen here as weak and ineffectual.