1.   The skin on my feet was rubbed raw.

2.   The skin under my sock was rubbed raw .

3.   And there is the mental anguish of being rubbed raw by neighbors one cannot stand but cannot escape.

4.   At a Judiciary Committee meeting on Wednesday, racial sensitivities were rubbed raw.

5.   A lump of scar tissue on the chest wall rubbed raw against my arm.

6.   But instead of touching an ecumenical chord, the visit pierced old religious wounds and rubbed them raw.

7.   Emotions rubbed raw by the civil rights movement were rubbed even rawer by the war in Vietnam.

8.   For seven months, the Tawana Brawley case rubbed raw every exposed racial nerve in this country.

9.   His thighs were rubbed raw from the strap.

10.   In each case, the shoe is designed to minimize pressure on the ball of the foot or on other spots commonly rubbed raw.