sunbathe
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Wendy the coyote was a fixture in the San Fernando Valley community for years, often spotted wandering around the neighborhood or curling up to sunbathe in a patch of grass, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The song is the unhurried portrait of a loafer on his front porch, watching tourists sunbathe while a pot of shrimp is beginning to boil.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2023
A man who takes his snakes to sunbathe in his local park has sparked an online debate about what animals are - and are not - acceptable in public spaces.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
At the time, two years before civil war erupted, their country was mainly known as a tourist attraction where visitors came to party, visit archaeological sites, ski on snow-capped mountains or sunbathe on sandy beaches.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
That beach is filthy now, but back then people used to go swimming there and sunbathe on the sand.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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Across the room, a Wassily-style chair sunbathes in the corner, with a handmade burgundy leather base and back, studs running along the seams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024
Invested in believing that she’s happy, and that her marriage is, too, Alice looks after Holly, sunbathes in the yard of their modest house and indulges in best-selling paperbacks.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
A woman sunbathes in front of the city of London financial district in London, Britain, May 18, 2022.
From Reuters ● Jun. 10, 2022
The only one I ever see around is their bored teenager who sunbathes all the time.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2016
Then it sleeps, eats, and sunbathes until it’s ready to flower— a teenage plant.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Apparently, this sunbathed land was as popular with interlopers in prehistory as it is now, and Portugal still boasts a large share of archaeological evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
We hung out by this beautiful pool and we just sunbathed on the beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024
As the moon orbits our planet, we see different parts of its sunbathed Earth-facing hemisphere, which creates the moon’s familiar phases.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 2023
In the daytime, the women went on epic shopping sprees and sunbathed as the paparazzi snapped away.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
She sunbathed endlessly, but her skin stayed the same copper-tinged shade, even as it became more and more dried out.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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Oura’s new ad campaign depicts human hands not just running or sleeping with the brand’s smart ring but waiting for the subway, sunbathing and getting an ultrasound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Tsymbalenko is fatalistic about what would happen if an attack comes while she is sunbathing.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Women are more likely to be diagnosed with melanoma at younger ages because of more sun exposure, including sunbathing and sunbed use.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
His daughter, Gabriela, has 473,000 followers on an Instagram page that shows her surfing and sunbathing around Maui.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
I explain to Jaimito that snakes are cold-blooded reptiles, that they need the sun to warm them, which is why sometimes you come across them sunbathing on rocks.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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