perspire
Example Sentences
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When you perspire, the sweat on your skin can pull heat from your body as it evaporates.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2023
And he said, ‘Coach, quarterbacks don’t sweat. Quarterbacks perspire.’
From Washington Times • Aug. 24, 2022
Sustained exposure to certain thresholds of high heat and humidity makes it difficult for people’s bodies to cool down, as they cannot effectively perspire.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2022
But Andrew said that he wasn’t able, at that time, to perspire.
From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2019
It wasn't just the heat that was making me perspire but my nerves about what lay ahead.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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