Example Sentences

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But just because we’ve grown used to L.A.’s jarring soundscape, shadeless streets and pockets of intense heat, it doesn’t mean they are harmless.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025

That is why the BKA footed the bill for the search this week in ruined farm buildings on merciless, shadeless scrubland in the rising heat of an Algarve summer.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2025

But standing on that boardwalk realizing that we were already essentially cooking in the shadeless, humid air, not a single person raised their hand to suggest that we might want to run the full distance.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2024

That’s what Brandon Merchant hopes will happen on the shadeless south side of Tucson, a city where about one-fifth of the population lives more than a mile from a grocery store.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2024

It was warm now, and she would be crossing a shadeless expanse of grass, broken by straight asphalt paths and public shelters.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan