How to Use sunbaked in a Sentence

sunbaked

adjective
  • The sunbaked air smells like creosote.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Smart flew over jagged mountains and barren sunbaked desert.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 7 May 2025
  • The gentle shades whisper of long, sandy, sunbaked days and cool, breezy evenings.
    — Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Though only an hour north of Dallas, the area looks nothing like the city’s flat and sunbaked landscape.
    — Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
  • This part of the state is mostly scrubland, alternately windswept and sunbaked.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The soldiers marched them to Duza’s compound naked, at gunpoint, the sunbaked dirt road burning their bare feet.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The soldiers marched them to Duza's compound naked, at gunpoint, the sunbaked dirt road burning their bare feet.
    — Todd Pittman, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Rooftops tell their own stories, some adorned with statues of gods and warriors and others with sunbaked locals sipping café con leche.
    — AFAR Media, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The sunbaked towns; the sparkling, forlorn sea; the wildness and humanity of the island.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2020
  • There were no verdant meadows, no golden prairies, no sunbaked savannas, and certainly no lawns.
    — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
  • The medieval ramparts ripple over the hill like the tail of a mighty dragon, and the panorama swings around from the sparkling sea and port to the sunbaked city and mountains.
    — Lisa Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2023
  • East Africa has just suffered its worst drought in 40 years, and its sunbaked soils are now deluged by the worst flooding in a century.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Energy companies view its sunbaked plains and windswept ridgelines as prime perches for solar panels and wind turbines.
    — Louis Sahagun, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • By mid-morning, the sunbaked terrace is flooded with tourists and townspeople drinking palest rosé before lunch service begins in earnest.
    — Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The blue-and-white azulejos are reflected in the sunbaked beaches and enchanting blue water of the Atlantic coast.
    — Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The day after my visit to Le Luc, Macron was hosting a rally in Toulon, a sunbaked port city less than an hour away.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
  • They were met at the door by two stray dogs lying in the sunbaked red dirt and a slender young Aboriginal woman wrapped in a surgical mask and blanket.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Riestra grew up in sunbaked northwestern Mexico, where houses are built as a series of passages around courtyards to keep the rooms cool.
    — Elisabeth Malkin, ELLE Decor, 18 Dec. 2015
  • The sunbaked color palette suggests a faded postcard from family vacations past.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • But beneath all that sunbaked beauty is a story of grief, of coping with uncertainty in a changing world, of reaching out for human connection despite it all.
    — The Glamour Editors, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The sunbaked chars are shaped like fish, clouds, teardrops, and perhaps 200 of them dot the middle reaches of the Brahmaputra downstream from Guwahati.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2019
  • When a sunbaked terrace or garden is sweltering, an outdoor umbrella can provide immediate relief.
    — Tim McKeough, New York Times, 23 June 2017
  • All too often, food put out for a backyard party is left in the heat for hours — think about arriving on the later side to a summer shindig to face a sunbaked macaroni salad with a suspicious-looking crust.
    — Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 26 June 2019
  • Dozens of hotels opened, strategically decorated to satisfy the fantasy of finding one’s own place in a sunbaked land of lavender and sunflower fields.
    — Alexander Lobrano, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • Seven days a week, dozens of retirees, college students, children and working parents flock to a sunbaked patch of pavement in this oceanside city just west of Santa Barbara.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Interiors skew minimal and elemental (raw wood, concrete, metal) and spotlight a muted palette of sand and dusty olive green; shades that pull from the sunbaked landscape dotted with palms and agaves.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2026
  • In a sunbaked Vatican City, huge crowds of devoted faithful stood for hours in a section beyond the neat rows of cardinals, who remained seated in their colorful robes and hats.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 7 May 2025
  • Eventually, baseball—the sport of sunbaked afternoons, a sport made beautiful and strange by its exposure to the elements—may be unrecognizable.
    — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Precious water As early summer temperatures soar above 90 degrees along the sunbaked beachfront, water has become a precious resource.
    — Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2024
  • Bryant grew up piloting motorcycles on the sunbaked terrain of California’s San Gabriel Valley.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024

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