perspire
verb (used without object)
to secrete a salty, watery fluid from the sweat glands of the skin, especially when very warm as a result of strenuous exertion; sweat.
are perspiring
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present progressiveof perspire.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The New York Stock Exchange is not yet open, but already some of the firm's brokers are perspiring at their telephone consoles, staring at banked arrays of 200 blinking buttons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jon Claud It is not easy to work up a sweat inside the frost-coated chambers of the Norcal vegetable-freezing plant in Watsonville, Calif. Even so, the company's 700 employees are perspiring heavily these days.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is more particularly necessary for animals in poor condition, or those which are perspiring or fatigued after long physical exertion.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
We are perspiring constantly, but usually to such a slight extent that the fact is hardly noticeable.
From Keeping Fit All the Way by Walter Camp
Your face becomes much dirtier when you are perspiring.
From Common Science by John W. (John Woodside) Ritchie
