suntan
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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
Edgewell Personal Care Co., the maker of Schick blazers and Banana Boat suntan lotion, has trimmed certain varieties of its anti-bacteria wipes Wet Ones, among others.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Sophie would rather apply suntan lotion to her own back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
He recently posted a photo of a surfboard he commissioned, with an artistic rendering of his face covered in stark white suntan lotion, a meme that circulated widely online last year.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2021
“Exactly. Loopy old Lemoncello said paperback books were meant to be taken to the beach, where they’d have suntan lotion, melting ice cream cones, and sand dribbled all over their pages.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
“They have the best suntans you’ve ever seen in your life,” said Kasen’s mom, Katie Wenzel, 45, who runs a local restaurant and motel.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2021
The people who lived here before me danced in Bourbon Street clubs; the balcony was for suntans.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019
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
Honestly, would you want to be dating someone who can make it through that field of California suntans without even an aesthete’s appreciation?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2016
He was wearing a blue shirt and suntans and white socks and black shoes.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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
We’ve stopped telling them that we always go to our garden in Brandenburg at the weekend, but they can tell anyway – by our suntanned holiday faces.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2020
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
Especially now, she might have added, after surviving his manly shipboard adventure: He was suntanned and lean muscled, and hummed sea chanteys under his breath in the moonlight....
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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
"I'm an evangelist against this foolish suntanning habit," says U.C.L.A.
From Time Magazine Archive
How else to explain such an affinity for one-hour photo developing, instant replay, touch- tone phones and suntanning parlors?
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
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