sunbaked
Americanadjective
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baked by exposure to the sun, as bricks.
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heated, dried, or hardened by the heat of the sun.
adjective
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(esp of roads, etc) dried or cracked by the sun's heat
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baked hard by the heat of the sun
sunbaked bricks
Etymology
Origin of sunbaked
1620–30; sun + baked ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Busloads of international tourists rolled up to the actual Bagdad Cafe on a cracked, sunbaked stretch of Route 66.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
A decade ago, it was a sunbaked parking lot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Border Patrol buses arrived every hour at a sunbaked parking lot in San Diego.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 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
He followed it out of the sagebrush clusters and onto a long stretch of sunbaked, cracked sand.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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