windburned
- a word derived from windburn.
Example Sentences
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Pints sling across the counter to construction workers wearing ski pants, while windburned teenagers — Lessar and his pals — nosh chicken barbecue pizza and play Battleship.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
My kid relayed, with enthusiasm, learning about frostbite and hypothermia in health class—without, apparently, making any connections to his own chapped and windburned hands.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2020
There’s a popular misconception of those California migrants as windburned dirt farmers — think the cotton-growing Joad family of John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” and Dorothea Lange’s famed photo of a migrant mother.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 4, 2018
He has pale blue eyes, a Tom Selleck mustache, and deeply tanned, permanently windburned skin.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 8, 2018
Hair is all soft fop, cheeks are windburned and rosy.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 23, 2013
