sweating out

present participle of sweat out

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of sweating out Cade realized the players were sweating out electrolytes — another word for minerals like sodium, potassium and magnesium — and upsetting the body’s chemical balance. 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 For overnight guests, tailor your thermostat settings to meet their needs without sweating out the rest of the family (or sending your home’s energy efficiency spiraling). Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Jan. 2026 The team's 8-9 record wasn't much better than the 4-5 finishing mark last season, and the Panthers still needed help to win the division, sweating out Atlanta's victory over New Orleans to prevail over Tampa Bay. Mike Sando, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026 Everyone was dancing, sweating out their edges, and singing every word. Sandy Pierre, Refinery29, 7 Nov. 2025 The man is a yeoman on the diamond, having spent the past couple of seasons showing up early and sweating out infield drills to refine his skills at shortstop. Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025 Water is running down the walls and dripping through light fixtures, as though the house itself is sweating out a fever. Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweating out
Verb
  • The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office is handling the prosecution, 11 Alive reported.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Gloves combine heavy-duty heat resistance with a flexible, comfortable fit for grilling, smoking, cooking and handling hot equipment.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Piedmont Park Arts Festival This long-standing arts festival brings out more than 250 sculptors, painters, leatherworkers, glass blowers, jewelers and more.
    Elizabeth Green, AJC.com, 30 July 2026
  • The effort also targets a long-standing weakness in the domestic industrial base, where defense officials have repeatedly identified precision cast components as a production bottleneck for military propulsion programs.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • Max Martin, Grande sings of blowing through breakups and make-ups and enduring mounting exhaustion with mass notoriety while the music swirls patiently and frequently angrily underneath.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Historically, enduring businesses like Wedgwood, P&G, and Ford consistently built success by prioritizing customer value, trust, and market expansion, recognizing profits as a natural outcome.
    Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • For a Seattle politician to argue that tolerating drug crime and disorder amounts to harm enhancement registered as something close to startling news.
    Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • The Steamfitters were staging protests outside the Pfizer site, accusing the MetroLoft — which employs a mix of union and nonunion contractors — of building on the cheap and tolerating unsafe work conditions.
    Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026
Verb
  • According to reports in France and Spain, however, Torres has been convinced to join former La Roja boss Luis Enrique at the Parc des Princes while on the brink of accepting PSG’s proposal due to feeling undervalued by Hansi Flick.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • But baby boomers aren’t as accepting of the reality as others, according to social media posts on the subject.
    Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Catherine is taking her anger out on those who hurt her, while Nora and Alice are both attempting to repress all of their fury.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Numerous governments across Central and Eastern Europe are taking steps to conserve electricity and avert an energy crisis as record low water levels on the Danube River have forced power plants to the brink of shutting down.
    Justin Spike, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • As Cifaldi and his companions started hiking out, the pole awkwardly sticking out of his side, Stillwater County Search and Rescue team commander Ty Williams monitored the group's progress via a dispatcher who took calls from the group.
    CBS News, CBS News, 30 July 2026
  • But in general, the scuzz in these songs is homogenized, distributed evenly rather than sticking out in clumps.
    Mitch Therieau, Pitchfork, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • The pilot plant is intended to close the technical gap between mining antimony-bearing ore and producing material suitable for defense applications.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Seven ramekins come on a platter bearing beets with tehina, a puree of greens called olesh, cannellini beans and corn, cabbage with sumac onions, eggplant, Yemenite pickles and chershi, a butternut squash spread.
    Connie Ogle July 31, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026

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“Sweating out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sweating%20out. Accessed 4 Aug. 2026.

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