PERSPIRE in a Sentence

Learn PERSPIRE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

101 example sentences for PERSPIRE, such as:

1. The first thing he noticed was that he was perspiring.
2. Great beads of perspiration trickled down his forehead.
3. The officer's face was red and perspiring and his eyes glittered under his frowning brow.
4. The corked eyebrows and mustaches were smeared over the perspiring, flushed, and merry faces.
5. He came to meet him, red and perspiring, with unbuttoned neckband, still limping in the same way.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERSPIRE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
perspire
 v.  sweat; excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
Classic Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
1  I became stupefied, several times I felt myself perspiring, I was overcome by a sort of paralysis; but this was pleasant and good for me.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: II
2  Strands of her black hair lay round her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IX
3  On its long back sat Daniel, hunched forward, capless, his disheveled gray hair hanging over his flushed, perspiring face.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV
4  The corked eyebrows and mustaches were smeared over the perspiring, flushed, and merry faces.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI
5  Petya wiped his perspiring face with his hands and pulled up the damp collar which he had arranged so well at home to seem like a man's.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXI
6  But the Governor did not finish: a dusty perspiring officer ran into the room and began to say something in French.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
7  The officer's face was red and perspiring and his eyes glittered under his frowning brow.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXI
8  Tipsy and perspiring, with dim eyes and wide-open mouths, they were all laboriously singing some song or other.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIII
9  I've seen that theer bald head of his a perspiring in the sun, Mas'r Davy, till I a'most thowt it would have melted away.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 63. A VISITOR
10  He came to meet him, red and perspiring, with unbuttoned neckband, still limping in the same way.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 10
11  There was no sign of Prissy so she went back upstairs, sponged Melanie's perspiring body and combed out her long dark hair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  "Rhett, I had no idea--" Though the chill wind was blowing through the open door on his back, the captain was perspiring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  So they "went it lively," panting and perspiring with the work.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  Thus Slackbridge; gnashing and perspiring after a prodigious sort.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
15  They poured out the liquor, and made the most friendly gesticulations; while a cold perspiration trickled down the back of the poor Councillor.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
Example Sentence:
1  We perspire to keep the temperature of our internal thermostat set to an average, normal temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
2  The first thing he noticed was that he was perspiring.
3  Read below for information on some hygiene basics and learn how to deal with greasy hair, perspiration, and body hair.
4  If your jogging clothes weren't made out of permeable fabric, you'd drown in your own perspiration.
5  She found three things essential for success in weight loss: diet, exercise, and perspiration.
6  Great beads of perspiration trickled down his forehead.