CANKER in a Sentence

Learn CANKER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for CANKER, such as:
1. Drug addiction is a dangerous canker in society.
2. But the lovely aromas in that enchanted air did at last seem to dispel, for a moment, the cankerous thing in his soul.
3. Not content merely to palliate the patient's sores and cankers, the researcher sought a means of wiping out the disease.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CANKER
canker
 n.  an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
 n.  a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
Classic Sentence:
1  But the lovely aromas in that enchanted air did at last seem to dispel, for a moment, the cankerous thing in his soul.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 132. The Symphony.
Example Sentence:
1  Drug addiction is a dangerous canker in society.
2  Not content merely to palliate the patient's sores and cankers, the researcher sought a means of wiping out the disease.