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
He was wearing his coat, although the day was so hot that perspiration stood out in gleaming little beads on his forehead.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
In spite, however, of the profuse perspirations from which he suffered, Ben Zoof, constant to his principles, expressed no surprise at the unwonted heat.
From Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Verne, Jules
The plant, without doubt, is decidedly anti-epileptic, its remedial effects being straightway followed by profuse and fetid perspirations.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas
Indeed, it is regarded as a childish malady, and is cured by a diet of melons and by profuse perspirations.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
Let us go also to the weakest: They have strange perspirations!
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
This condition is followed by profuse cold perspirations.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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