perspire
Example Sentences
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He walks five miles every day for exercise and perspires a great deal, but he doesn’t change his shirt.
From Washington Post
He has a hot girlfriend who tells him how beautiful he is and a heavily perspiring agent who tells him how powerful he is — what more could a guy want?
From New York Times
A case could be made that the air around us on Sunday sought to clutch at us and suggest that we might wish to rest more and perspire less.
From Washington Post
And he said, ‘Coach, quarterbacks don’t sweat. Quarterbacks perspire.’
From Washington Times
Andrew denied his accuser’s claim he was perspiring when they first met because he had “a peculiar medical condition, which is that I don’t sweat.”
From Los Angeles Times
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