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Example sentences for "sweaty"

Lexicographically close words:
sweater; sweaters; sweating; sweats; sweatshop; sweep; sweepe; sweeper; sweepers; sweepeth
  1. Through her glasses she saw the horses stretching their sweaty necks away from their burdensome collars, and then stand hipshot, thankful for the brief rest.

  2. Mary V unsaddled a very sweaty Jake before the sky was reddening with the dawn; before even the earliest of little brown birds were a-chirp or a rooster had lifted his head to crow.

  3. Tomaso's brother sat his sweaty horse beside Johnny and eyed both the gazer and the object of his gaze.

  4. The fat one was all wilted down in the saddle, and their ponies were used to shooting and just stopped and stood there thankful that they had an excuse, because the poor things were terribly hot and sweaty and tired.

  5. She never read about murders or the sweaty stories in the human-interest columns of the paper or the unpleasant fictioning of realists.

  6. The air was foul with stale tobacco, refuse, and imprisoned odors of innumerable greasy meals and the sweaty apparel of men who work with their hands.

  7. The Methodist practice of lay preachers, for example, Lloyd treats as an instance of the collapse of the class system: Each vulgar Trade, each sweaty Brow Is search'd.

  8. Bob ran his fingers through his thick, sweaty hair, and unconsciously gave it a jerk.

  9. And some of them squandered not merely one day's work but a month's or six months' hard, sweaty toil flipped away with one throw of the dice or one spin of the ball.

  10. Reedy felt all the sneer go out of his lips and a sort of coldness steal along his sweaty skin.

  11. He lay upon his back, his puffy hands folded across his spherical abdomen where his pantaloons met a sweaty pink-striped shirt; and he panted wheezingly through his nose.

  12. We went along a narrow place and got into a kind of room, all damp and sweaty and cold, and there we stopped.

  13. The sweaty faces, the cold white ones, the flushed hot ones: all began to turn to the President, who was staring at the two before him like a man watching himself die in a mirror.

  14. They were sweaty faces and red ones and dry white ones and hands were raised to seize them.

  15. This came to him dimly as his left hand, which had been struggling to fend off the sword, gradually lost its grip on the German's sweaty slippery wrist.

  16. Smith tried to stop him with a heavy right hand smash, but his fist glanced off the man's sweaty shoulder.

  17. The sweaty smell of his hat band disgusted his nostrils.

  18. Soon our sweaty bodies were caked with sand and the only respite came when the front spring shackle gave way and we ground to a halt.

  19. My head swelled to twice its size, my glasses slid down a little on my sweaty nose, and the tiny red veins in my eyes grew from a thread to a rope to a flag to a tapestry of crimson rage and the noise abruptly stopped.

  20. I tried for a cool breath in that sweaty helmet.

  21. A Howard is nowhere lovelier than in America, or a sweaty nightcap less relished.

  22. His ancestors had been Consuls when the forefathers of patricians of a later date "were clapping their chapped hands and throwing up their sweaty nightcaps.

  23. The two cowpunchers gave Tom slanting glances and left, muttering under their breaths to each other as they led their sweaty horses into a farther corral.

  24. Lance had pulled off the saddle and the sweaty blanket and the bridle, and had turned Coaley into the corral before he knew that some one was coming.

  25. His sweaty horse paused to breathe, heaving a great sigh, looking discouragedly at the climb yet before him.

  26. They scuffled along through the dust their feet kicked up, and before their walk was done grew very sweaty and hot.

  27. You sweaty brooks and dews it shall be you!

  28. Darkness, you are gentler than my lover, his flesh was sweaty and panting, I feel the hot moisture yet that he left me.

  29. He was pale, with a sweaty pallor like that of the sick; but he smiled, satisfied to live and to show himself in public, adopting his new pose with the instinctive freedom of one who but needs an incentive to parade before the people.

  30. Sweaty and panting he dragged the cross, changing the position of the burden when one of his shoulders became numbed by the painful weight.

  31. The people of the better class were caged behind the grilles of the chapels on the sides, avoiding contact with the sweaty crowd that surged in the naves.

  32. Every face was pale, not with a deathly pallor, but brilliant and livid, with the sweaty gloss of emotion.

  33. In the beginning it reflected a little of the anxieties of the afternoon, for he found himself hurrying in the middle of a huge and sweaty crowd which made no way for him.

  34. It was an exhilarating moment in which he was conscious of the herculean, sweaty handgrip of W.

  35. I snuck another look at him as I sped along the Disney back-roads, lined with sweaty Florida pines and immaculate purple signage.

  36. By the time the choir retired, sweaty and exhausted, a group of ad-hocs were ready to take their place, and I escorted my recruits to an offstage break-room.

  37. XIV Stale cigarette smoke, the acrid odors of sweaty clothing, the vapors of alcohol, the breathing of a crowded multitude, worse by far than a trainful of pigs.

  38. I've got no laurel leaves, honey," Remigia answered, pausing a moment in her work to push a mop of hair back from over her sweaty forehead.

  39. As he supported himself with his elbows on his bony knees, he smoothed his face with his dirty, sweaty hand, tossed back his hair, and smiled at his own happy thoughts.

  40. But at this moment the new deal gates were thrown open before him with a creaking sound; and a handsome, ruddy fellow of eighteen in wagoner's attire appeared, leading a troika of powerful-limbed and still sweaty horses.

  41. When he heard the creaking of the gate, the old man looked up, and wiping his heated, sweaty face with the flap of his shirt, and smiling with pleasure, came to meet the prince.

  42. As the smell of a sweaty horse is very offensive to the bees, it is never safe to allow these animals to go near a hive, as they are sometimes attacked and killed by the furious insects.

  43. Drew loosened the girth, stripped off saddle and blanket, and wiped down the sweaty back of his new mount.

  44. He wiped his sweaty face with the back of his hand.

  45. He caught the salt reek of sweaty harness.

  46. In slow response, the four blacks settled into their sweaty collars, and the big Bain freighter, with its tugging trailer, heaved up the swale and lurched drunkenly down the other side to the glittering mesa.


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