Examples of cold sweat in a Sentence
The patient feels faint and is in a cold sweat.
I break out in a cold sweat when I think about asking my boss for a pay raise.
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Just sitting down with the IRS makes some people break out in a cold sweat.
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John Csiszar, CNBC, 22 May 2026
Twenty-eight general managers will wake up in a cold sweat at some point this summer, jolted out of a nightmare about that game.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
Who hasn’t stood in front of a wall of swatches and broken out into a cold sweat, returning to the paint store two, three, even four times?
—Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026
As the harried solo parent of a sick child, Byrne lets the camera zoom in so close to her character’s insecurities that the audience breaks out in a cold sweat.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
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John Csiszar, CNBC, 22 May 2026
Twenty-eight general managers will wake up in a cold sweat at some point this summer, jolted out of a nightmare about that game.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
Who hasn’t stood in front of a wall of swatches and broken out into a cold sweat, returning to the paint store two, three, even four times?
—Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026
As the harried solo parent of a sick child, Byrne lets the camera zoom in so close to her character’s insecurities that the audience breaks out in a cold sweat.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
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“Cold sweat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cold%20sweat. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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