sweating bullets
Example Sentences
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Tired of spending frigid winters shoveling snow, or of sweating bullets and swatting mosquitoes in the summer?
From MarketWatch • Nov. 29, 2025
Billions of humans are sweating bullets as the hottest summer in recorded history continues.
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2023
“The manufacturers are sweating bullets right now,” one anonymous congressional aide told the New York Times in 1992.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2022
I mean, I was sweating bullets over this choice.
From Fox News • Oct. 17, 2021
Kaylee is sitting cross-legged on the couch, texting her friends, and I’m sweating bullets.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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