callused

past tense of callus

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for callused
Verb
  • Degrease The Kitchen If frying bacon or green tomatoes has left your range hood and cooktop with caked on grease, Windex can cut through it.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Mud caked the walls and floors on the home’s bottom level.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Beyoncé gave husband Jay-Z a $5 million Hublot Big Bang watch encrusted with nearly 1,300 diamonds on his 43rd birthday.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In the living room, wall panels composed of plaster, wood, and resin are encrusted with plexiglass and semiprecious stones.
    Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Alternatively, Venus’ initial, planetwide magma sea might have cooled and hardened into a crust quickly enough for liquid water — maybe even an ocean’s worth of water — to flow across it.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And those things hardened their proverbial steak, too.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The lakes froze thick enough to skate across, the air stung sharp in the lungs, and the game every boy seemed to dream about was hockey.
    Zach Sweet, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In July, the department also froze and later unfroze $6 billion in education funding meant to go to school programs for vulnerable students.
    Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Despite herself, Cali stiffened.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Lane picked up three on first down, but the Otay Ranch defense stiffened, turning back the next two runs for no gain.
    Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Following the latest reports on inflation, expectations for a quarter-point rate cut, which were already high, became all but solidified.
    JJ Kinahan, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The motion was withdrawn after a significant public and judicial backlash, an episode that solidified her image as a guardian of institutional integrity against an overreaching executive.
    Sugam Pokharel, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Callused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/callused. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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