sunbaked

Example Sentences

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A decade ago, it was a sunbaked parking lot.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

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 New York Times • May 20, 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

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

Up and up and up he’d borne her, high above the pyramids and pits, his wings outstretched to catch the warm air rising from the city’s sunbaked bricks.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin