Usage examples for gangrene
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It would ill- become me to blame you, but I may be allowed to pity you, for I see the disease in your soul which, like gangrene in the body. – The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers
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This hypocrisy, a characteristic of the times, is a gangrene in gallantry. – Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac
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The revolution has an enemy, the old world, and to that it is pitiless, just as the surgeon has an enemy, gangrene, and is pitiless to that. – Studies in Literature by John Morley