Example Sentences

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Our men suffered terribly from the heat, and some received sunstrokes.

From An Original Belle by Roe, Edward Payson

That’s how so many of them get sunstrokes, and are ruined for life.”

From Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

After Paddy Muskrat and his wife talked to her about sunstrokes, the Muley Cow tried to keep in the shade during the rest of the day.

From The Tale of the The Muley Cow Slumber-Town Tales by Smith, Harry L.

Still, one gets restless in weather like this, when human beings are dropping down dead in the streets of a city close by in dozens, from sunstrokes.

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

A famous Covenanter—a Roundhead after Cromwell's own heart—might Oswald Dwight have been had he dwelt in Merry England, where sunstrokes were unknown and dark-eyed sirens seldom heard of.

From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by King, Charles