perspire

Example Sentences

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When you perspire, the sweat on your skin can pull heat from your body as it evaporates.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2023

And he said, ‘Coach, quarterbacks don’t sweat. Quarterbacks perspire.’

From Washington Times • Aug. 24, 2022

That perhaps does hint that summer’s sultry grip on our imaginations and our propensity to perspire may be on the wane.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022

Sustained exposure to certain thresholds of high heat and humidity makes it difficult for people’s bodies to cool down, as they cannot effectively perspire.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2022

Tendai looked at her steadily, the way Father did when he wanted to make someone perspire.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer