How to Use body heat in a Sentence

body heat

noun
  • Forty percent of your body heat can be lost from your head.
    Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2018
  • The first is that these mammals need to be large to trap enough body heat.
    Brian J. Skerry, National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2018
  • But all of them must wear a hat, for body heat retention.
    David G. Allan, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The side panels are made from open-weave fleece to release body heat.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 1 May 2018
  • Your body heat will smooth out creases and make the gloss look lustrous once again.
    Devon Abelman, Allure, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Even a bag, a garbage bag was emptied out and put over the boy to help hold his body heat in.
    Anna Rose MacArthur, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2018
  • And don’t forget your gloves, hat and scarf, which will prevent the loss of body heat.
    Emily Slawek /, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2018
  • The zookeeper is doing her best to transfer her body heat to the baby the staff now calls Little Spoon.
    Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • But maybe a relationship is about something other than body heat and attraction.
    Kenny Leon, ajc, 25 May 2018
  • So effectively a chimp will pant just like a dog to evaporate the saliva off their tongue to take the body heat out into the atmosphere that way.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
  • Water is a much better heat conductor, so body heat is sucked away from a sodden animal at a deadly rate in cold conditions.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Insulation from their feathers helps birds retain body heat and probably did the same for dinosaurs, a number of which are now thought to have been warm-blooded.
    Steven Austad, AL.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Because a child’s body heats up three to five times as fast as an adult’s, heatstroke strikes quickly and can kill a child when his or her temperature reaches 107 degrees.
    Ellen Byron, WSJ, 2 May 2018
  • Giddings said a search by a Two Bear Air helicopter with high-tech equipment in the hours after the crash found no evidence of body heat of survivors in the area.
    Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 8 June 2018
  • The idea is that the fabric will absorb the body heat and re-emit the energy as far infrared radiation back into your skin, creating a kind of mirror effect of energy.
    Jamie Lisanti, SI.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Smaller land mammals—including humans—quickly lose body heat to chilly water, making them susceptible to hypothermia.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Mar. 2018
  • This will help keep the chilly wind out and your body heat in.
    Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The best way to trap that body heat, experts say, is to dress in layers.
    Karen Garciastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Curling up near a friend wasn’t enough, nor was the body heat from her dog, a young Husky mix.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Our body heat then warms the air and the layers keep that cozy space contained next to our skin.
    Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2021
  • These use your body heat to form to your foot after a few days of riding.
    Déjà Leonard, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Plus, the Ghost Ice cover helps wick away moisture and body heat.
    Kate Barrington, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Your body heat forces the cream or liquid [products] to bond with the powder.
    Tiffany Dodson, SELF, 18 June 2019
  • The rattlesnake can sense—perhaps see—the body heat of its mammalian prey.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Seating was dense, allowing mass body heat to take some of the chill from the evening air.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Think long johns and thermals, which are designed to trap body heat and keep you warm in style.
    Shelby Ying Hyde, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Jan. 2022
  • All of these fabrics help to ward off cold by trapping air that’s been warmed by your body heat close to the skin.
    Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The video’s infrared gaze captures a man’s body heat and breathing.
    Jeremy Hallock, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2020
  • This will absorb body heat to cool you down as the night progresses.
    Chris Hachey, BGR, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Using a cooling mattress pad or topper can also help dissipate body heat and promote a comfortable sleep.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 2 July 2024

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