perspiration
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Your skin is slightly shining from perspiration, but you barely feel the heat because you get to enjoy the cold deliciousness of a frozen yogurt pop.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026
"There are even some rather moving, rather touching details -- namely, its silk lining shows clear signs of perspiration," he said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
He danced with electric energy, sang with heartwarming ardency, and splashed perspiration around the Circle in the Square in “Just in Time,” portraying the 1960s chart-topper and sometime movie star Bobby Darin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
The polygraph exam uses a device strapped to a subject’s body to measure physiological responses like heart rate, blood pressure and perspiration as the person answers yes-or-no questions.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025
It was one of Gregory Powell’s favorite platitudes that nothing was to be gained from excitement, so when Mike Donovan came leaping down the stairs toward him, red hair matted with perspiration, Powell frowned.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
I had been bored with it some weeks—with nocturnal burnings and morning perspirations; but I am quite well again, which I attribute to having had neither medicine nor doctor thereof.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
Let us go also to the weakest: They have strange perspirations!
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
His lordship was in the garden, where Woodward found him in hobnailed shoes, digging himself into what he called his daily perspirations.
From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William
Thunderbolt stones were said to sweat during a storm, which was not thought a more wonderful "fact" than the perspirations streaming out of glass windows "in winter when the stove is hot."
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
The appetite is in abeyance, the animal quickly becomes what is termed 'tucked-up,' or greyhound-like, in the body, and patchy perspirations break out about him.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
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Charlotte's Web
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