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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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
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
Larry Campbell, 61, looks sharp in his red, white and blue button-down and thick-rimmed glasses as he takes a walk past sunbaked bungalows and cubic duplexes in Jefferson Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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
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