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Example sentences for "sweating"

Lexicographically close words:
sweat; sweate; sweated; sweater; sweaters; sweats; sweatshop; sweaty; sweep; sweepe
  1. He was sweating when he reached the row of palms that lined the irrigation ditch.

  2. Under the sweating leadership of the music teacher, the school orchestra held the pace for another bar or two, until one of the players stood up and rendered a discordant hot lick on his trumpet.

  3. And if Henley has returned-- Suddenly Corriston found himself sweating in the silence, despite the cold, despite the hoar frost that was beginning to collect on the rim of his oxygen mask.

  4. To his sweating palms the surface seemed as chill as the lid of a coffin, but he refused to believe that it could trap him irretrievably.

  5. His sweating face was ashen gray; and when the cart came to the church door they gave him mockingly a great bunch of fresh, bright flowers.

  6. The brown naked men, sweating at every pore, pulled the drag rope of the net very slowly up the soft dry sand step by step, their damp, brown muscles sparkling with vivid blue lights.

  7. All but Bow are in full sunlight, sweating at their oars, he is in the shadow the sail casts on our bow.

  8. We know that old hitting-below-the-belt gag of sweating employers too well to be taken in by it.

  9. I don't know how you came to have anything to do with such a rotten lot," Armitage cried, sweating under a white heat of rage.

  10. Sweating with fear and the nervous tension he was under, Michael remained standing in the darkness.

  11. At a signal he rose, and proceeded to the sweating lodge, being careful always to place his feet on the moccasins.

  12. Tomorrow Black Cat will undergo, in the presence of the whole tribe, the great medicines of the sweating cabin, in order that Bloodson may fall into his hands with all the warriors he commands.

  13. He pelted himself for an hour, sweating with agony, heaping on himself imaginary sins, and entering so far on that road that he ended by suddenly realizing his position and understanding he was out of the right track.

  14. Again, the scene around him wasn't hypocritical, its intention was as thickly evident as the rice powder on the black sweating faces of the prostitutes.

  15. When, later, he was on the bed, it was wet under his sweating body.

  16. Wayne Shandon was distinctly surprised the next morning as he entered the corral to encounter Sledge Hume sitting a sweating horse and evidently in wait for him.

  17. She stopped Gypsy with a swift, gentle touch upon the reins, while he yanked his sweating horse about by pulling manfully at both reins held one in each hand.

  18. That gent what is crossin' over to her is Spur Treadwell, her sweetie," the hostler explained as he deftly unhitched the sweating horses from the buckboard.

  19. One-wing McCann brought his sweating horses to a sliding stop before the front porch.

  20. Shelby was sweating furiously from the exertion, and the moisture absorption apparatus of his space armor was putting in some tough service.

  21. Sweating and bloody, Shelby drew himself to the roof and staggered over to the landing stage.

  22. We need not follow him in the details of the treatment he recommends if in spite of the adoption of his preventive regime, the sweating sickness should come.

  23. But during this time of sweating he must defend his braine by wearing on his head a quilt.

  24. Carefully he wiped his sweating hands on his bandanna.

  25. And he rose and stuck out a sweating hand.

  26. Our sweating hinds their sallads now defile, Infecting homely herbs with fragrant oil.

  27. The sweating image shakes his head, but he, With mumbled prayers, atones the deity.

  28. Carried away wrapped in a sheet, and in a chair home; and there one after another thus carried (I staying above two hours in the water) home to bed, sweating for an hour.

  29. It was while I was standing there in the big window, sweating over the way the talk in the other room was dragging itself out, that I saw the man on the lawn.

  30. While I was still sweating under the big load Maisie Ann had dumped upon me, the night despatcher's boy came in with a message.

  31. It was sweating smoke through the split-shingle roof, and the open door framed a square of lurid crimson.

  32. Pylos and Polyxo, on board of which their officers fumed in impatient and excusable wrath while sweating engine-room artificers were desperately striving to effect repairs to defective condensers.

  33. For some hours she wallowed in the swell a few miles from the shores of Caithness, while sweating mechanics struggled with sooted plugs and choked jets.

  34. But the eyes were hard and unflinching as ever beneath sweating brows.

  35. Jean Gouicket and his friends listened agape, not sure whether to applaud or shiver, the former sweating in sudden fear when the great Trouet bellowed for more wine of a better flavour.

  36. Hoole, sweating at every pore, as he afterwards said, gave an off-hand indication of approval to Flanso, and the march was resumed.

  37. Is it over them you've been inside sneezing and sweating since the dawn of day?

  38. He had been an animal blistered and sweating in the heat and pain of war.

  39. Burdened thus, he staggered under the trees, sweating freely, many times laboring for breath, aching with toil, until at last he had reached camp.

  40. He was paler now and sweating more freely.

  41. His face was sweating freely, yet it was far from red in color.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sweating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.