perspiration

Example Sentences

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"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 begins “Hotwired” with an accessible tour through the biology and evolutionary history of perspiration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

But perspiration is of course beneficial in a very basic way: it cools us down.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

Exhausted, dripping with perspiration, my girlfriend and I came to the end of our shift.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2024

He worried suddenly that she could smell his perspiration, which he knew had collected beneath the synthetic material of his shirt.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri