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

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

A sunbaked Hill, who’s been experiencing homelessness for five years, stood Tuesday afternoon atop an adjacent wash off the Strip, where he’d built an impromptu camp with salvageable debris after losing all of his belongings.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2023

We would spend hours in the sunbaked water, emerging with skin so tight it felt like if you smiled, your face would crack.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana