sweat off
Example Sentences
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“I wish there was a better way,” he said, wiping sweat off his eyebrows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025
Mohamad El Masri, 18, a first-year architecture student, wiped sweat off his face after taking a break from boxing at the youth center, and put it simply: “Who isn’t worried about money at the moment?”
From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2022
Wiping sweat off her forehead, she used her damp wrist to clean the ash off the drone’s tiny readout screen, exposing a string of garbled numbers and letters.
From Slate • Jul. 30, 2022
Prameela Walikar, a fisherwoman, wipes the sweat off her face and says that she can barely afford to keep her catch fresh in the stifling heat.
From BBC • May 5, 2022
Aunt Xi-wen gave the door a few more good swipes of paste before she stopped and wiped the sweat off her forehead.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
