• One is so old and gaunt that the hair on his body is white, and the sweat on his chest hangs like drops of the first rains on dry blades of grass.

    NEWYORKER: Baptizing the Gun

  • While he did this, his apparatus measured the level of sweat on the volunteer's skin.

    ECONOMIST: Consciousness

  • The addictive lure of putting one's ideas, money and sweat on the line.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • He may not have minced his words, but the beaded sweat on Mr Muchima's brow conveyed the awkwardness of his situation.

    BBC: China in Zambia: Jobs or exploitation?

  • Hotel porters (with sweat on the brow of many of them ... ) rush about in the lobby pushing huge loads.

    CNN: Hajj diary: The great migration

  • He still moves with an effortless steadiness over the testing terrain, not a bead of sweat on his bald pate or smooth brow, both tanned a rich chestnut.

    BBC: Sardinia, land and sea

  • He could feel the sweat on his forehead.

    NEWYORKER: Teaching

  • Down the road, as you sit there behind your desk, you may find yourself reminiscing about the days spent with a hoe in your hand and sweat on your brow and fresh air blowing across you face.

    FORBES: Is A Career Change Possible In This Economy?

  • If driving to a store and waving your phone by a terminal puts too much sweat on your brow, American Express has launched a new way to part with your money in exchange for physical goods that's even more effortless.

    ENGADGET

  • We've been taking it in turns to sweat buckets on rowing machines, treadmills and bikes.

    BBC: Jon Wilkin column

  • His cheeks became flushed and tiny beads of sweat gathered on the bridge of his nose.

    NEWYORKER: Luda and Milena

  • "Hunger, " was all 15-year-old Gisma Kafi could muster, sweat beading on her forehead, as she put down the pots and bedding she had been carrying on her head.

    BBC: Fleeing from Sudan's Nuba Mountains

  • For the first 15 minutes or so, you want the onions at the bottom of the pan to be slowly but steadily taking on color as they sweat out their liquid.

    WSJ: Momofuku Recipes by David Chang

  • The officer's voice rises, sweat blisters on his forehead.

    NPR: Ronan Bennett: From Prisoner to Writer

  • On days like May 8, when the Nasdaq composite rose 7.8%, you could almost feel the sweat beading up on the brows of thousands of novice fund managers.

    FORBES

  • And this week, an upscale Copenhagen hotel began offering free dinners to guests who sweat it out on power-generating cycles.

    CNN: Pedal power is fueling green awareness

  • I'd find myself forgetting some weekends to check out the score on a Saturday in my sweat of anticipation for Sunday.

    WSJ: Gerard Baker: Football Is Better Than Soccer

  • Or a favorite anecdote: Quinton is 300 pounds and 15 years old, with a film of sweat always present on his forehead.

    NPR: Teaching in a Forgotten Part of America

  • On days such as May 8, when the Nasdaq composite rose 7.8%, you could almost feel the sweat beading up on the brows of thousands of novice fund managers.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mr. KEROUAC: Dean stood in front of him, oblivious to everything else in the world, with his head bowed, his hand socking in together, his whole body jumping on his heels and the sweat, and always sweat was pouring and splashing down his tormented neck to literally lie in a pool at his feet.

    NPR: 'On the Road' at 50

  • They could see it in the layer of sweat that was gathering on his face.

    NEWYORKER: Ghosts

  • GE's success is based on its ability to make assets sweat harder for shareholders.

    ECONOMIST: Fearful Boeing

  • But we don't sweat the small stuff on Stephanomics - except, perhaps, the small fact that today's programme was the last of the current series.

    BBC: Should we forget about growth?

  • He leaned back on the bench, and now, in his sweat-stained shirt, without his jacket and tie, Wolf Maftzir looked like a trader with time on his hands, a sweaty livestock trader who had come to the village to negotiate with its farmers, patiently and artfully, a cattle deal from which, he was certain, both sides would profit.

    NEWYORKER: Heirs

  • Generali has tended to expand haphazardly, sitting on foreign assets rather than making them sweat.

    ECONOMIST: Insurance

  • When a Downing Street advisor points out that loneliness is probably more dangerous to our health in retirement than smoking, there are plenty who immediately assume that the advice is part of some dastardly statist plot to get pensioners out of their one-bed flats to sweat their final years away on a factory production line - see below for one example.

    BBC: Friends are a matter of life and death

  • So instead, I use a skin-tight, sweat-wicking polypro base layer on my legs and torso, then the aforementioned fleece layers (which also repel water toward my outer shell).

    NPR: Subzero Biker Checks In

  • Mr Major's decision reduced the heat on Labour, just as it was starting to sweat.

    ECONOMIST: And some Tories won��t stop stamping on John Major��s fingers

  • When she came out I was dripping with sweat, and she said 'What on earth are you doing?

    NPR: In Death, Diana Got Through to Royals, Author Says

  • In Seoul you can watch a soccer match on the Internet and catch every bead of goalie sweat.

    FORBES: Why We Need Startups

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