Example Sentences

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Platt strains credulity playing a shy, insecure and lonely teenager not so much because he looks too old, but rather that his trying to seem young is so sweatily effortful.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021

I love the part about the 1975 video clip you found, in which a young, mustachioed Koons, not yet “performing his man-child consumerism,” as you write, sweatily interviews David Byrne.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2021

Many musical purists looked down on the genre, disdaining renditions of Bach on the synthesizer and performances by Luciano Pavarotti in which the Italian tenor sweatily belted out Neapolitan standards.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2020

They travel sprawled in strollers, or slung sweatily across their parents’ chests – or they trudge along the roadside.

From The Guardian • Nov. 2, 2018

Tina looks to me, hands still sweatily gripping the bars.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon