sunstroke
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sunstrokes
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As soon as they landed in St. John, it was as if each cast member got sunstroke and proceeded to spend the next few days going in and out of paranoia, fear and delusion.
From Salon ● May 20, 2025
“I didn’t know what sunstroke was, and nobody had told me what could happen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
On the first day, said Mr. Gao, 39, he had sunstroke.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
She was admitted to The Grange University Hospital with suspected sunstroke but later diagnosed with viral meningitis and put into an induced coma.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2023
I wasn’t exactly sure what sunstroke was, but it sounded like something that might make you see flying cats and magic jelly beans.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
There would be more sunstrokes in the world, if it were not that the shadows of dull men made such nice cool places for the others to walk in!
From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever
Men have been seen hard at work digging a cellar with the thermometer at 125° F. in the shade; and sunstrokes, though not unknown, are extremely rare.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
Before this was put up, they say that workmen used to fall dead with sunstrokes, on the wharves.
From To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana
Don't exhaust your strength by being angry; it's bad for you in this heat; sunstrokes are sometimes brought on that way.
From The Iron Furrow by Henry A. Botkin
The Priory excuses him on the ground that his intellectuals are not strong—he has spent most of his life in Africa, and there taken a couple of sunstrokes.
From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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