body heat

Example Sentences

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Heat stress -- the name given to the hazardous build-up of body heat caused by soaring temperatures, humidity and other factors -- is one of the most common ways that weather kills people.

From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026

Their collective body heat raises the cave’s temperature to a sweltering 106°F, and the piles of guano beneath them are deep enough to bury the Statue of Liberty to her waist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 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

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

Everyone had gotten so warm from the dancing and the body heat that they’d taken off their coats.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer