How to Use perspire in a Sentence

perspire

verb
  • I was nervous and could feel myself start to perspire.
  • She ran two miles and wasn't even perspiring.
  • If your feet perspire a lot on the slopes, get a pair of ski socks that will wick moisture away from your skin.
    — Outdoor Life, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The cotton can become damp from perspiring and you can get chilled.
    — Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Feb. 2025
  • So if the Fourth was the day to inspire, perhaps Friday was the time to perspire.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
  • In some of the wholesale places customers stood three deep waiting for the perspiring clerks to take their orders.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 July 2018
  • His face, even above water, is perspiring wildly, large droplets of sweat streaming down his forehead.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Weightlifting was for the circus or the effeminate; ladies didn’t perspire, much less sweat.
    — Katrina Gulliver, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Once a person stops perspiring, in very short order a person can move from heat exhaustion to heat stroke.
    — Katherine Harmon, Scientific American, 23 July 2010
  • Basically, a dormant woody tree or shrub sitting out in the cold of winter doesn’t perspire.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 31 Jan. 2020
  • To define them briefly, today’s saunas are high-heat, vented rooms for relaxing and perspiring.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Henry says for people who tend not to perspire much or sweat through their clothes, such alternatives may be desirable.
    — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The lively crowd, perspiring to the point of glistening, responded with a happy roar.
    — Tim Greiving, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • Melted into a blanket of perspiring nuttiness, splashed with a sea of dressing that spills out the sandwich’s sides.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Humans, Bethea writes, are tailor-made for this pursuit because of legs built from slow-twitch fibers and the ability to perspire.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 28 Jan. 2015
  • Antiperspirant prevents you from perspiring, just as the name suggests.
    — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Antiperspirant prevents you from perspiring, just as the name suggests.
    — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2021
  • In an effort to cool down, humans perspire by sweating liquid water, but plants transpire by sweating gaseous water vapor.
    — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 22 July 2019
  • Those who perspire salty and heavy may have large electrolyte losses with shorter workouts, making supplements more important.
    — Matt Fuchs, TIME, 16 Sep. 2024
  • In muggy South Florida, the Spartans expect to perspire until the very end.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Some people perspire gently, appearing (at most) dewy after a workout or under scorching mid-August sun.
    — Sarah Wu, Glamour, 12 Dec. 2018
  • In the kitchen, the woman who runs the restaurant, Nguyên Thi Liên, was smiling, perspiring, and clearly overwhelmed.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
  • At the house in Delray Beach, Tyson kept perspiring and philosophizing.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
  • And although that issue was rectified and the courthouse still stands, the building is rusting and the judges perspire working with broken air-conditioning in the tropical heat.
    — Philippa Brant, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2013
  • On Tuesday, two men at a museum in the Netherlands lifted a black sheet off a table to reveal a cantaloupe-size globe of overcooked meat perspiring under a bell jar.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Excitement gripped the perspiring spectators as a shrill whistle sounded a warning 5 minutes before the explosion.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • The products work for athletes who are always moving and perspiring, but WYN is also meant for parents running after toddlers or prepping for half-marathons.
    — Danyel Smith, Essence, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Symptoms include fatigue, dizziness, fainting, headache and either profuse sweating or the inability to perspire, system officials said.
    — Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News, 16 June 2021
  • Players still wanting to show off their bare arms may rub Vaseline on their arms to ward off the wind, while others will spray Right Guard to make sure the body doesn’t perspire—keeping skin dry and, therefore, warmer.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 16 Jan. 2019
  • Audience members were convinced the blinking, breathing and even perspiring Lincoln animatronic was an actor rather than a robotic machine.
    — Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 12 May 2024

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