sweat out
verb
sweat out or sweated out; sweating out; sweats out
1
: to work one's way painfully through or to
2
: to endure or wait through the course of
Examples of sweat out in a Sentence
I can sweat out one more year of this job—before I totally flip out.
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Cade realized the players were sweating out electrolytes — another word for minerals like sodium, potassium and magnesium — and upsetting the body’s chemical balance.
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Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
Cade realized the players were sweating out electrolytes – another word for minerals like sodium, potassium and magnesium – and upsetting the body’s chemical balance.
—ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
The Horned Frogs won eight of nine games to finish the season and avoid sweating out their spot on the NCAA Tournament bubble.
—Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Mar. 2026
The fact that this was a purely hypothetical exercise wasn’t lost on Larionov, who doesn’t have to actually sweat out his omissions the way USA GM Bill Guerin or Canada GM Doug Armstrong and Sweden head coach Sam Hallam have in real life.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
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Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
Cade realized the players were sweating out electrolytes – another word for minerals like sodium, potassium and magnesium – and upsetting the body’s chemical balance.
—ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
The Horned Frogs won eight of nine games to finish the season and avoid sweating out their spot on the NCAA Tournament bubble.
—Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Mar. 2026
The fact that this was a purely hypothetical exercise wasn’t lost on Larionov, who doesn’t have to actually sweat out his omissions the way USA GM Bill Guerin or Canada GM Doug Armstrong and Sweden head coach Sam Hallam have in real life.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for sweat out
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“Sweat out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweat%20out. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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