How to Use sunbaked in a Sentence

sunbaked

adjective
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  • The medieval ramparts ripple over the hill like the tail of a mighty dragon, and the panorama swings around from the sparkling sea and port to the sunbaked city and mountains.
    — Lisa Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The sunbaked towns; the sparkling, forlorn sea; the wildness and humanity of the island.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The soldiers marched them to Duza’s compound naked, at gunpoint, the sunbaked dirt road burning their bare feet.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The soldiers marched them to Duza's compound naked, at gunpoint, the sunbaked dirt road burning their bare feet.
    — Todd Pittman, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The day after my visit to Le Luc, Macron was hosting a rally in Toulon, a sunbaked port city less than an hour away.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
  • East Africa has just suffered its worst drought in 40 years, and its sunbaked soils are now deluged by the worst flooding in a century.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The sunbaked chars are shaped like fish, clouds, teardrops, and perhaps 200 of them dot the middle reaches of the Brahmaputra downstream from Guwahati.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2019
  • They were met at the door by two stray dogs lying in the sunbaked red dirt and a slender young Aboriginal woman wrapped in a surgical mask and blanket.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Riestra grew up in sunbaked northwestern Mexico, where houses are built as a series of passages around courtyards to keep the rooms cool.
    — Elisabeth Malkin, ELLE Decor, 18 Dec. 2015
  • With its sunbaked beaches, forested peaks, 13th-century castles, and nearly three times as many vineyards as Bordeaux, the still-wild Languedoc feels like nowhere else in France.
    — Katherine Wheelock, CNT, 9 June 2017
  • Seven days a week, dozens of retirees, college students, children and working parents flock to a sunbaked patch of pavement in this oceanside city just west of Santa Barbara.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • There were no verdant meadows, no golden prairies, no sunbaked savannas, and certainly no lawns.
    — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
  • All too often, food put out for a backyard party is left in the heat for hours — think about arriving on the later side to a summer shindig to face a sunbaked macaroni salad with a suspicious-looking crust.
    — Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 26 June 2019
  • Energy companies view its sunbaked plains and windswept ridgelines as prime perches for solar panels and wind turbines.
    — Louis Sahagun, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Sample contents: The October box had a wonderful autumn theme — quite a treat for my sunbaked SoCal family.
    — Melissa Wiley, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2012
  • So much dirt became airborne that even the Chiricahua Mountains, towering 6,000 feet above the sunbaked valley, would sometimes disappear.
    — Kyle Paoletta, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Dozens of hotels opened, strategically decorated to satisfy the fantasy of finding one’s own place in a sunbaked land of lavender and sunflower fields.
    — Alexander Lobrano, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • Isolated pedestrians straggle across the sunbaked span.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
  • His office occupied a circular tower atop a former Lockheed headquarters that then housed the Countrywide brass, and featured sweeping views of the sunbaked surrounding hills.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 July 2023
  • Here was the toxicity of social media for all to see: a sunbaked scene of disaster tents, soaked mattresses, and millennials with roller bags looking wide-eyed and dehydrated.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2019
  • The sunbaked color palette suggests a faded postcard from family vacations past.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • Though the region has not gotten much attention from the very top tiers of international wine society, the Negev’s wines consistently net good scores from wine critics, and their strong, sunbaked flavors are considered distinctive by connoisseurs.
    — Yadid Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2020
  • When a sunbaked terrace or garden is sweltering, an outdoor umbrella can provide immediate relief.
    — Tim McKeough, New York Times, 23 June 2017

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