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  • He was wearing a green sweat-stained shirt and beige cutoff shorts marked with dirt.

    Jake Rosenwasser: New York City's Biggest Rooftop Farm Jake Rosenwasser 2011

  • He was wearing a green sweat-stained shirt and beige cutoff shorts marked with dirt.

    Jake Rosenwasser: New York City's Biggest Rooftop Farm Jake Rosenwasser 2011

  • The stocky Melcher, who looks more suited to American football than mimicking a skinny pop star, steals the show as he grinds with abandon to the beat in a sweat-stained t-shirt and camouflage pants.

    American Paratroopers Go Gaga with ‘Telephone’ Remake | Impact Lab 2010

  • Wyatt stood up, picked up his sweat-stained hat from the table, and fit it on his head.

    A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011

  • The whole experience will feel a bit like taking a sweat-stained midsummer National Express coach journey with an entire battalion of elite concert violinists who somehow manage to perform an hour and a half of Schoenberg even while they're banging each other in the ear with their bowing arm.6 Lionel Messi will do something completely different.

    Ten ways to satisfy your constant craving for El Clásico | Barney Ronay 2011

  • There seemed something more sensible about a society where mothers and children fled the city for the Catskills, the Hamptons, Maine, etc., while their husbands stayed behind in blissful, if sweat-stained, solitude, joining them on weekends or in August.

    Summers in Letters Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • It is there in a yoga class, with the rubbery smell of the mats and the sweat-stained T-shirts and dusty windowsills, when the width of my sun salutation takes in the great possibility of the widest imagining of my world.

    Shelly R. Fredman: A Place Called Hope Shelly R. Fredman 2011

  • Wyatt stood up, picked up his sweat-stained hat from the table, and fit it on his head.

    A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011

  • Or perhaps the literary ability that their teacher is trying to convey is of a sort—strained and sweat-stained—far removed from the straightforward declarative sentences and bedrock grammar that the students most need to master.

    A Little Learning Eric Felten 2011

  • A glittering tribute to Michael Jackson will have you swaying your neck to the beat of "Thriller," while the costume exhibit will lure you to long flowing gowns, sweat-stained debonair ensembles, crystal-encrusted bodices such as the one worn in Swan Lake and even M.C. Hammer's infamous harem pants.

    Maria Russo: Saratoga Springs: Mineral Baths, Museums And Homemade Potato Chips Maria Russo 2011

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