flop sweat

Example Sentences

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But throughout the 2025 Emmys telecast, the nice guy comic flailed in the deep end of a flop sweat pool.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2025

But scoff I must: On an album slick with flop sweat, poor little Daisy comes across not as a beneficiary of Perry’s motherly encouragement but as a victim of her creative desperation.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024

Even if you’re not someone who experiences full-blown flop sweat when things go awry, those micro-shifts in sweat content of your skin can indicate different kinds of emotional arousal, including the onset of stress.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2022

They are very, very sorry, they tell their constituents, lips pursed, eyes downcast, forehead flop sweat glistening in front of the television cameras as they try to explain their transgressions.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2019

You can practically smell the flop sweat as you read AMPAS’s press release.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2018