Example Sentences

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They planted red Do Not Disturb flags—usually on hand to signal that a sunbather wants to nap, not drink.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Joyce Brodsky was always more of a sunbather than a swimmer.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2021

In 1956, Mr. Evans was in Los Angeles on a sales trip when he was spotted beside the Beverly Hills Hotel’s pool by Shearer, who thought the young sunbather resembled her late husband.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2019

They begin to circle a sleeping sunbather in her deckchair like vultures.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2018

A solitary sunbather in his underpants, facedown on a towel, had patches of uneven sunburn on his shoulders and legs—pink and white like a strawberry and vanilla ice cream.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan