perspire
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He couldn’t have been sweating on the dancefloor because an “overdose of adrenaline’’ during his time as a helicopter pilot in the 1982 Falklands War had left him unable to perspire.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2024
Your nose will perspire and you will feel compelled to touch it.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024
And he said, ‘Coach, quarterbacks don’t sweat. Quarterbacks perspire.’
From Washington Times • Aug. 24, 2022
That perhaps does hint that summer’s sultry grip on our imaginations and our propensity to perspire may be on the wane.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022
He pulled the corpse between them and tried to make him bend in half, but the man in black was so stiff Fezzik really had to perspire to get him at right angles.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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