How to Use perspire in a Sentence
perspire
verb
- I was nervous and could feel myself start to perspire.
- She ran two miles and wasn't even perspiring.
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If your feet perspire a lot on the slopes, get a pair of ski socks that will wick moisture away from your skin.
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Outdoor Life,
24 Feb. 2021
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In some of the wholesale places customers stood three deep waiting for the perspiring clerks to take their orders.
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sandiegouniontribune.com,
1 July 2018
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In the kitchen, the woman who runs the restaurant, Nguyên Thi Liên, was smiling, perspiring, and clearly overwhelmed.
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Adam Davidson,
The New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2017
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Weightlifting was for the circus or the effeminate; ladies didn’t perspire, much less sweat.
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Katrina Gulliver,
WSJ,
2 Jan. 2023
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Humans, Bethea writes, are tailor-made for this pursuit because of legs built from slow-twitch fibers and the ability to perspire.
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The Editors,
Outside Online,
28 Jan. 2015
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In muggy South Florida, the Spartans expect to perspire until the very end.
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Rainer Sabin,
Detroit Free Press,
14 Sep. 2021
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Basically, a dormant woody tree or shrub sitting out in the cold of winter doesn’t perspire.
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Paul Cappiello,
The Courier-Journal,
31 Jan. 2020
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Once a person stops perspiring, in very short order a person can move from heat exhaustion to heat stroke.
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Katherine Harmon,
Scientific American,
23 July 2010
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Melted into a blanket of perspiring nuttiness, splashed with a sea of dressing that spills out the sandwich’s sides.
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Kara Baskin,
BostonGlobe.com,
13 Aug. 2019
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Players still wanting to show off their bare arms may rub Vaseline on their arms to ward off the wind, while others will spray Right Guard to make sure the body doesn’t perspire—keeping skin dry and, therefore, warmer.
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Tim Newcomb,
Popular Mechanics,
16 Jan. 2019
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To define them briefly, today’s saunas are high-heat, vented rooms for relaxing and perspiring.
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Hadley Mendelsohn,
House Beautiful,
18 Oct. 2019
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Has there ever been another athlete who did not perspire?
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Dan Shaughnessy,
BostonGlobe.com,
12 Feb. 2021
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By the end of the debate, Kennedy, tanned and relaxed, appeared to have triumphed over a sickly looking Nixon who had been noticeably perspiring under Mr. Hymes’s lights.
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Richard Sandomir,
BostonGlobe.com,
3 Aug. 2019
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By the end of the debate, Kennedy, tanned and relaxed, appeared to have triumphed over a sickly looking Nixon, who had been noticeably perspiring under Mr. Hymes’s lights.
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Richard Sandomir,
New York Times,
2 Aug. 2019
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On Tuesday, two men at a museum in the Netherlands lifted a black sheet off a table to reveal a cantaloupe-size globe of overcooked meat perspiring under a bell jar.
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Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
30 Mar. 2023
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In an effort to cool down, humans perspire by sweating liquid water, but plants transpire by sweating gaseous water vapor.
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Jeff Berardelli,
CBS News,
22 July 2019
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Antiperspirant prevents you from perspiring, just as the name suggests.
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Chioma Nnadi,
Vogue,
23 May 2018
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Because sweat is such a trigger for her, Eliza also gravitates toward workouts that won’t make her perspire a ton, to keep her skin as comfortable as possible.
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Emilia Benton,
SELF,
5 Dec. 2022
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Some people perspire gently, appearing (at most) dewy after a workout or under scorching mid-August sun.
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Sarah Wu,
Glamour,
12 Dec. 2018
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Excitement gripped the perspiring spectators as a shrill whistle sounded a warning 5 minutes before the explosion.
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Merrie Monteagudo,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 July 2023
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Symptoms include fatigue, dizziness, fainting, headache and either profuse sweating or the inability to perspire, system officials said.
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Liz Hardaway,
San Antonio Express-News,
16 June 2021
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