suntans
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of suntans
Example Sentences
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The people who lived here before me danced in Bourbon Street clubs; the balcony was for suntans.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019
Many officials spent their time in a secure room reading signals-intelligence reports or working on their suntans by the pool.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2016
Yet the result, due April 1, is far from a straight-up ode to swimsuits and suntans.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2016
The door swung open and there stood two girls, centre-parted blonde hair, fading suntans, sandals and painted toenails, bare arms, sweet expectant smiles, unbearably pretty.
From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2012
It made me happy, but I kept wondering about next spring, about whether khaki, or suntans or whatever the uniform of the season was, had this aura of promise in it.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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