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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "callus" in a sentence

    callus example sentences

    callus


    callused


    calluses


    1. the callus that had built up in my warehouse work had worn


    2. You hold his hand to your face, the callus ridges static cling make the tiny fuzz on your face come hither


    3. ” behind her left ear, a hardened callus throbbed in time with every syllable, as the stick flashed its binary message


    4. I don't want to feel callus and cold 473


    5. But inside, his callus heart has formed a protective wall to keep it from saying the name of his true love


    6. Repeat this treatment daily until the callus has disappeared


    7. Light calluses across the whole of the palms, with a writing callus on his right middle finger


    8. I had stared death in the face before, but frequent exposure to it can’t completely callus one to its paralyzing force


    9. It is preferred to leave the cut pieces overnight to callus over and plant the next day


    10. Another possible problem stemming from Level 4 awareness is that the same kind of callus and ruthless behavior that may be directed at other individuals may also be directed towards other cultures resulting in racism

    11. Carl picked at a callus on his thumb and Billy Buck watched a spider crawling up the wall


    1. The blisters on our hands were now callused over


    2. Leave it to Josh to be so callused


    3. Callused, gnarled old instruments of mercy, he thought, and then quickly took his leave of them


    4. Callused, gnarled old instruments of mercy, he thought, and then quickly took his leave of


    5. Back home again, callused and aching, my seafarer’s passport had finally arrived


    6. I pray that our current President (Bush Jr) sees the error of his ways and abandons his flippant, callused attitude towards the unfortunates on Death Row that are waiting for their lethal injections--Death is not a laughing matter President Bush!


    7. “Remember his hands? Soft hands, not callused by physical work


    8. had a strong hand, callused and rough, but it felt good


    9. His extremely large and callused hands didn’t seem to belong to this skinny little man


    10. pastures and fields laboriously carved out of thick forest by callused

    11. ” her wrinkled and callused fingers counted them out


    12. The mercenary guards stood alert, frozen at attention, their hands callused from wielding their weapons


    13. He had seen much pain and suffering throughout his life and in a way he had grown callused to it, but seeing Evette in pain for whatever reason seemed to wrench his guts out


    14. The end of the afternoon saw the lot of them all bruised and battered, with fresh blisters rising on their callused hands from where they gripped the spears


    15. He ran his callused hand across her swollen belly in slow, sweeping strokes


    16. The old man at last took out and stuffed his pipe with tobacco, tamped it with a callused thumb, lit it, let out a small stream of smoke


    1. with his tales and tally and salt calluses,


    2. The calluses on my knuckles are gone


    3. He couldn't even see his calluses


    4. His hand was strong but had lost the calluses his father’s hands still wore


    5. palms were rough with calluses


    6. She remembered the calluses on his


    7. But Batam which was impervious to the taunts and felt no hatred for anyone, ever, had no calluses on his heart, rising meanness in his spirit, always as good Samaritan in adverse cases, never got angry or rebuked my sister Beatrice in no time; so in the long run she gave up the use of the peculiar nickname


    8. His teeth were yellow and sharp, and his paw-like feet and hands were built up with calluses and dried up, dead skin


    9. My thumb traces over the calluses of that hand


    10. noticed ‘tooth-induced’ scrape marks and also calluses on her

    11. and calluses on her fingers and knuckles


    12. There are no calluses or bite


    13. Toby, take a look at the calluses on my hands


    14. calluses or teeth marks on them


    15. His hands had seldom encountered manual labor and therefore lacked the thicker skin and calluses of more physical men


    16. And to help him in sitting down, the camel is granted calluses at his chest and legs so as to prevent his body from inclination and unbalancing while trying to sit down


    17. I caress your calluses of creative use


    18. What do we see: gender, color, calluses, emptiness? We should see blood, for everything around here, all we own, all this country is, has been built by the slave labor and the wages of blood that War 933


    19. He stared into his hands, admiring the calluses built up over years of hard work with canvases and cauldrons and paints and vines


    20. For a lost amount of time, Ravan sat on the edge of the bed staring at the window, occasionally rubbing the leathery, wrinkled calluses on his bony wrists

    21. as corns, bunions, calluses and areas where there are calcium and mineral


    22. Light calluses across the whole of the palms, with a writing callus on his right middle finger


    23. 515 Early Church tradition claims that James was called camel knees because of the calluses on his knees from praying so often


    24. The newcomer’s naturally fair complexion was darkly tanned and weather-beaten, his hands bore the calluses of hard work, and his eyes were dark brown under bushy eyebrows


    25. from its wanderings, for he raised her hands with tenderness and, turning them palm up, Something of her exasperated weariness seemed to penetrate his mind, calling it back looked at the calluses


    26. The nails were broken and irregular, there were heavy calluses on the dimpled, helpless one


    27. What have you been doing with your hands—plowing?” calluses


    28. She felt its strength, and the calluses of countless hours plying lute, sword, and lance


    29. But it is true, I swear it, as I sit here and breathe God's good air and look at the calluses on my hands and begin to resemble the faded handbills I used when I ran for county treasurer


    30. From the ragged sleeves of the blue shirt wrists like big grapevines protruded, and hands sheathed in brown calluses crisscrossed with barnacle cuts

    31. You do not give me anything to eat because I have no calluses on my hands, and you do not know that it is a hundred times harder to work with the head


    32. This is worse than calluses: such works will leave bumps on the head


    33. They have but one custom in his country, and that is, if one has calluses on his hands, he may sit down at the table, and if he has not, he gets the remnants


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    Synonyms for "callus"

    callus callosity

    "callus" definitions

    an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot)


    bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone


    (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid


    cause a callus to form on


    form a callus or calluses