Example Sentences

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Pouring with sweat, we dutifully followed arrows on hand-painted signs that led down a precarious trail to some forbidding rocks upon which a few people were sunning themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2015

Two weeks before Revel’s scheduled closing, vacationers were sunning themselves on an 11th-floor pool deck lavishly planted with grasses and shrubs to resemble a natural shoreline.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2014

Down below, a bunch of sea lions were sunning themselves on the rocks.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

Near the first onager, three Earthborn were sunning themselves on the rocks.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

On the Saturday afternoon of the week following the Jubilee, Edwin and Mrs Hamps were sunning themselves in the garden, when Janet’s face and shoulders appeared suddenly at the other side of the wall.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold