Sentence examples for sweaty from inspiring English sources

"sweaty" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something that is covered in perspiration, such as, "I was feeling so nervous, I was sweating buckets and my shirt was sticky and sweaty."

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sweaty

adjective

Covered in sweat.

  • You never worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were - The Catcher in the Rye

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Sweaty, musical, melodramatic and political, Cairo Station stars ballsy writer-director Youssef Chahine as a homicidal newspaper seller in Cairo's vast railway station.

One guy, sweaty and breathless, with his helmet tucked under his arm, was swishing his baton through the air, re-enacting his best shots.

Which immediately brings to mind Daffy, Carlyle's sweaty - and to my mind caricatured - psycho-Scot in The Beach.

Ebola safety procedures were triggered at Southmead hospital in Bristol last month when Adam Griffiths, 24, who had been travelling in Africa arrived in accident and emergency, suffering from chest and abdominal pains and feeling hot and sweaty.

Last Thursday's London gig from Fantasma was sweaty and boisterous.

We had landed the night before in the warm, sweaty dark and now had the expectant thrill of throwing back the curtains on not just a new day but a whole new world.

My throat closes up and I get sweaty palms and I start feeling light-headed, dry-mouthed.

The sensation remains vivid: palpitating heart and shaking, sweaty hands.

"Do you honestly think I'd be interested in you, with your sweaty builder's armpits?" she raged.

"German directors like their work expressive, sweaty but authentic.

Yet something about Depardieu's sweaty regret feels more genuine.

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