4 example sentences using carbuncle.
Carbuncle used in a sentence
Carbuncle in a sentence as a noun
I mean it's great to get rid of that overloaded carbuncle of user-agent, but that will just lead to a new round of interpreting "hints".
It's a meta-startup for discussing other people's startups; it's a carbuncle on a vain, self-absorbed slice of our industry.
Scriabin had a whole musical language worked out and plans for a masterwork that involved sounds, sights, smells, and a strange language of sighs and grunts... but then he got a carbuncle on his lip and died.
I don't want to sound like Prince Charles with his "monstrous carbuncles", and I accept that perhaps there may be some people that somehow find that sort of "modern" building somehow aesthetically appealing, but I can't see how anyone would possibly think it was in keeping with the rest of the terrace either side, and have absolutely no idea how they got planning permission in such a strict conservation area.
Carbuncle definitions
deep-red cabochon garnet cut without facets
an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus