sunbaked

Example Sentences

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Adaptations allowed early humans to thrive in sunbaked climates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Border Patrol buses arrived every hour at a sunbaked parking lot in San Diego.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2024

KRATIE, Cambodia — As Dr. Sreyleak Luch drove to work the morning of Feb. 8, through busy sunbaked streets in Cambodia’s Mekong river delta, she played the overnight voice messages from her team.

From Seattle Times • May 26, 2024

She filed an application in May for a license to operate as a commercial retailer in the sunbaked San Diego County town just north of the Mexico border.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023

But I remember it was a scorching summer day and I was driving up a rutted dirt road, nothing on either side but sunbaked bushes, gnarled, spiny tree trunks, and dried grass like pale straw.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini