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
Border Patrol buses arrived every hour at a sunbaked parking lot in San Diego.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
There was a time when “summer books” meant popcorn reads you consumed in a sunbaked afternoon — disposable books devoured and left behind for the next hotel room guest.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 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 is comforted by the talc smell of her housedresses mixed with the sunbaked smell of her skin, the perfumy smell of her party dresses.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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