sunbaked

Example Sentences

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Adaptations allowed early humans to thrive in sunbaked climates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 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

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

A sunbaked Hill, who’s been experiencing homelessness for five years, stood Tuesday afternoon atop an adjacent wash off the Strip, where he’d built an impromptu camp with salvageable debris after losing all of his belongings.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 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