sunbaked

Example Sentences

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McMurtry was born in 1936 in Archer City, a town of a few thousand on the sunbaked and featureless plains of north-central Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Border Patrol buses arrived every hour at a sunbaked parking lot in San Diego.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2024

Wan said condensation from air-conditioning units – a staple in the sunbaked region – is recaptured as water for irrigation.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Owing to the thick canopy and the remarkable ability of trees to absorb heat, food forests are refreshingly climate-controlled places to farm, compared to sunbaked plantations.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2023

He is comforted by the talc smell of her housedresses mixed with the sunbaked smell of her skin, the perfumy smell of her party dresses.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez