body heat
Example Sentences
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You lose 90% of your body heat through your head.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
When it is not possible to keep rooms heated to 18C, he recommends wearing gloves, warm socks and a woolly hat, eating a higher carbohydrate diet and generating more body heat by moving around.
From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025
Unsure what to say, Hope leaned his chest over the cot, passing his body heat to her.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2024
The temperature is set at a chilly 68 to 70 degrees, because body heat rises with such strenuous exertion.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024
The elders say that eating dog meat increases body heat, thus increasing energy, but you shouldn’t eat too much of it or your body will burn up and combust.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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