sunstroke
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sunstrokes
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Initially doctors thought she had sunstroke, says Caroline, but an MRI scan revealed it was more serious and she was flown back to the UK by air ambulance.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2024
One U.S. labor official, according to Ngai, reported that 88 deportees died of heat exhaustion or sunstroke in July of 1955 after being dropped off in the border city of Mexicali in 112°F July heat.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024
“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
Having completely abandoned his domestic obligations, he spent entire nights in the courtyard watching the course of the stars and he almost contracted sunstroke from trying to establish an exact method to ascertain noon.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
A charming lady had noticed this from the verandah above, and ran down in some alarm, fearing that these young Nelsons had got sunstrokes.
From The Days Before Yesterday by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton
Every year more people drop dead from sunstrokes in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and other eastern cities than are killed by earthquakes in San Francisco in a thousand years, so far as we may know.
From Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam by Hubert Howe Bancroft
It has no desolating blizzards, no frost bites, and few sunstrokes.
From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole
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
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