sunbaked

Example Sentences

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McMurtry was born in 1936 in Archer City, a town of a few thousand on the sunbaked and featureless plains of north-central Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

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

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2024

There was a time when “summer books” meant popcorn reads you consumed in a sunbaked afternoon — disposable books devoured and left behind for the next hotel room guest.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

Owing to the thick canopy and the remarkable ability of trees to absorb heat, food forests are refreshingly climate-controlled places to farm, compared to sunbaked plantations.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2023

Then they gathered up the sunbaked clothes and shook the sand from them.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt