- present participle of perspire.
perspiring
Example Sentences
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Perspiring is a mechanism for cooling the body.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
Perspiring, with eyes intensely piercing the audience, Don Rickles searched for a victim.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2017
Figure 26.1 Venus Williams Perspiring on the Tennis Court The body has critically important mechanisms for balancing the intake and output of bodily fluids.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Perspiring squads of soldiers hauled giant columbiad cannons from the fort’s wharf up to its stone parapets.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2011
Perspiring heavily, he looked up when he heard Okra barking at a mule-drawn wagon that pulled around the corner of Eliot Street and was coming toward the Meecham house at an unperturbed pace.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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