sunstroke
noun
a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.
sunstrokes
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pluralof sunstroke.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
He would keep his eye on the glasses, to prevent sunstrokes.
From L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
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 Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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
