Examples of flop sweat in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Not the brilliant but marginalized borderline personality so popular in today’s television, but the real deal, a creature held together by flop sweat, desperate cunning and doggedly delusional ambition. — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 In the lead-up to Sunday’s 94th Oscars ceremony on ABC, there’s been all kinds of panicked flop sweat about dwindling audience numbers and reversing the trend. — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022 Drenched with flop sweat, a despondent Cruz left the Senate and immediately started packing his rolling bag for Cancun, hoping that a few days on the beach in Mexico would leave him refreshed and ready to pursue a new line of attack against Jackson. — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2022 Will these steps liven up the show, or give it an aura of flop sweat? — oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2022 There was a hint of flop sweat coming from Zuckerberg Monday during an earnings call with investors, but not because of all the recent bad publicity. — Joel Mathis, The Week, 26 Oct. 2021 Continuing, Griffin says her withdrawal symptoms included tremors and flop sweat. — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 2 Aug. 2021 Instead, Henry's act begins to curdle, his Midas touch dissipating in a spray of rage and flop sweat, and soon his devotion to his lover begins to falter too. — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 6 July 2021 The try-outs are an unusually public form of auditioning, one that could cause flop sweat even for veteran emcees. — BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2021 See More

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