perspired
Example Sentences
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The beleaguered bride, in her dress, perspired through her makeup on a warm afternoon.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
He recalls that Cash, out of his element as an actor, perspired so much out of nervousness that Ron got soaking wet.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021
But I perspired on them so much that the metal inside was totally rusted and started to smell.
From The Verge • Oct. 15, 2017
Meanwhile, the unfit women, by a wide margin, perspired the least, especially during the strenuous cycling, and became physiologically hotter — their core temperatures rising notably — before they began to sweat at full capacity.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2010
They perspired with the sweat of a horse and had a smell of suntanned hide and the taciturn and impenetrable perseverance of men from the uplands.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
