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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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
That’s how so many of them get sunstrokes, and are ruined for life.”
From Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Although temptation burn as fiercely as dogdays, do not fall beneath it, for less hurtful were a hundred sunstrokes to the body, than to the soul is one temptation that hath overcome it.
From The Advocate by Charles Heavysege
It's an island that ordinarily belongs somewhere in the tropic zone—real sultry weather, sunstrokes and all that.
From The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
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
