Meaning of sunbake | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To bake in the sun.
2. To sunbathe.
   Australia, New-Zealand

Examples

“Oh, she wants to moan with pain, thinking of Richard lying down on the sunbaking rock, naked as well.”

“Their pots also were made of sunbaked mud, unfired and unglazed, though sometimes richly engraved.”

“2005 September, Grant Parsons, Cajun Coast, American Motorcyclist, page 29, We roll in just before sunset, after all the day-tourists have left, and the sunbaked collection of cabins, aging hotels, restaurants and oil depots has a strangely deserted feel that′s oddly appealing.”

“Larvae do not survive well in the clayey soils preferred by most geophagists, and if they do, they are generally killed by the sunbaking, air drying, and heating that many geophagists do to their soil prior to consumption (cf. chapter 1).”

“Such diversion as Podson could extort from his isolation was soon vitiated by repetition. He surfed. He sun-baked - with discretion till his skin had peeled and given him a harder cuticle.”

“'I saw her,' said Neptune, 'sunbaking topless.'”

“2003, Caroline Daley, Leisure and Pleasure, Auckland University Press, page 132, Ancient precedents were important in establishing the long, lost history of the benefits of sunbaking. Journalists noted that ‘The ancients′ had recognised the importance of sunlight as a cure for disease; now modern New Zealanders had to do the same.”

“It was spent supervising sandcastles and shell collections, soggy towels and gritty kids, with hardly a minute to ourselves for sunbaking.”

“The boat carries only 14 passengers and makes a stop at Michaelmas Cay where you can get off the boat, sunbake on the cay, swim in the shallow waters, and snorkel off the beach.”

“Inspired, I spent the summer holidays practising Chopin instead of sunbaking by Sophia′s pool.”

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