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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The sunbaked Los Angeles of “Skincare” is not the glowing, golden fantasy that we often seen on screen, an impossibly beautiful escapist fantasy.
From Los Angeles Times
Border Patrol buses arrived every hour at a sunbaked parking lot in San Diego.
From New York Times
KRATIE, Cambodia — 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 Seattle Times
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
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
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