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She says the current trend to create tan lines by burning in the sun, coupled with false claims that suntan lotion is responsible for the very cancer it's trying to prevent is a "perfect storm".

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

“People go into the gift shop early in the trip to buy suntan lotion, a hat, and browse,” he said.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2023

Douglas attributes the love to the fact that it “tastes like real ingredients that your body recognizes and resonates with, rather than many that might be cheaper but often taste like Coppertone suntan lotion smells.”

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2023

Sophie would rather apply suntan lotion to her own back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2023

I thought I could cure diabetes by spreading suntan lotion on sticks of chewing gum.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

But the return of pleasant weather this year could bring more than suntans as the deluges provided fertile ground for mosquitoes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

The people who lived here before me danced in Bourbon Street clubs; the balcony was for suntans.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019

Bling, suntans and Florida and New York are in.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2017

Many officials spent their time in a secure room reading signals-intelligence reports or working on their suntans by the pool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2016

It made me happy, but I kept wondering about next spring, about whether khaki, or suntans or whatever the uniform of the season was, had this aura of promise in it.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

NOV 2008: Berlusconi hails Barack Obama as "handsome, young and also suntanned", after he was elected the United States' first Black president.

From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2023

Ylva is everything that Faye’s not: thin, suntanned, engaged in meaningful work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2020

Alas, it is in fact Dame Joan’s husband Percy, the famous Percy, who is suntanned, jolly and very amused that I have mistaken him for the PR guy.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2018

The smiling, suntanned participants joined sessions on team-building and learned how to collectively protect and promote the rights of patients and drug users to humane medical and social treatment, including ST.

From Slate ● May 22, 2017

Amy asked, a frown wrinkling her suntanned face.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

At this time of year, a person can go ice fishing and recline, shirtless, by the hole, suntanning from reflecting light.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2019

But what about addiction to suntanning, bodybuilding, fortune telling, or love?

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2015

How else to explain such an affinity for one-hour photo developing, instant replay, touch- tone phones and suntanning parlors?

From Time Magazine Archive

"I'm an evangelist against this foolish suntanning habit," says U.C.L.A.

From Time Magazine Archive

The students spent the entire hour speaking in French about suntanning.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals