sweat over
phrasal verb
sweat over or sweated over; sweating over; sweats over
informal
1
: to work very hard at (something)
She was sweating over her law books all afternoon.
2
: to feel worried or nervous about (something)
After they took the test, they were sweating over their scores.
Examples of sweat over in a Sentence
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Back in the ‘70s, anxious record company execs were no doubt sweating over the potential hit to sales and airplay if one of their top-selling artists went public about being gay.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
Flashback: Some Democrats were beginning to sweat over keeping Virginia in the blue column right before President Biden dropped out of the race.
—Zachary Basu, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024
Lawmakers return for a pivotal week as Democrats sweat over President Joe Biden.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
Already, employees are sweating over the looming $500 million in cuts that co-CEOs George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins would bring in an effort to create better profit margins.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 7 July 2024
Our job as citizens is to keep faith with that, to hold democracy as the ideal and protect it from those who would tear down a constitutional government built with wisdom, blood and sweat over the last 248 years.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2024
She was named an assistant pastry chef in 2002 and became the executive pastry chef in November 2014 – just in time to sweat over the details of that year’s gingerbread White House for the holiday season.
—Darlene Superville, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
But the work of a cook, sweating over a burner, tasting and poking the food about to be put in someone’s mouth, is intimate, too.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
During a broad press conference on the topic of SAG-AFTRA’s interim agreements program — under which some movies and TV projects can shoot or engage in publicity during the ongoing strike — Crabtree-Ireland confirmed what many in the indie film world have been sweating over for weeks.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
Flashback: Some Democrats were beginning to sweat over keeping Virginia in the blue column right before President Biden dropped out of the race.
—Zachary Basu, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024
Lawmakers return for a pivotal week as Democrats sweat over President Joe Biden.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
Already, employees are sweating over the looming $500 million in cuts that co-CEOs George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins would bring in an effort to create better profit margins.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 7 July 2024
Our job as citizens is to keep faith with that, to hold democracy as the ideal and protect it from those who would tear down a constitutional government built with wisdom, blood and sweat over the last 248 years.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2024
She was named an assistant pastry chef in 2002 and became the executive pastry chef in November 2014 – just in time to sweat over the details of that year’s gingerbread White House for the holiday season.
—Darlene Superville, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
But the work of a cook, sweating over a burner, tasting and poking the food about to be put in someone’s mouth, is intimate, too.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
During a broad press conference on the topic of SAG-AFTRA’s interim agreements program — under which some movies and TV projects can shoot or engage in publicity during the ongoing strike — Crabtree-Ireland confirmed what many in the indie film world have been sweating over for weeks.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
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