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sunburned

[ UK /sˈʌnbɜːnd/ ]
[ US /ˈsənˌbɝnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight

How To Use sunburned In A Sentence

  • Émile Zola admired their fine clear skin, like that of girls of the north of France, he thought, in contrast to the peaches from the Midi which were yellow and sunburned like the girls of that region.
  • Some recent research into the causes of malignant melanoma in adults suggests that getting badly sunburned as a child might have something to do with it.
  • They saw simply a loose, lank youth with tow-colored sunburned hair and a berry-brown, ingenuous face that wore a quizzical, good-natured smile.
  • A badly sunburned face or back is extremely painful.
  • Sunburned, butt-slapping white men came out from the lake for salty corn chips and margaritas and to razz the fatso wives who were mostly reading fashion magazines. Jesus-Man and the Bee Sting
  • Photos released by the Mexican navy showed several sunburned fishermen in T-shirts and Bermudas waiting to get on a bus. Mexico may call off rescue in boat capsizing
  • Sir Walter Scott gave an account of an unidentified friend who had been in Paris and discovered a ‘tall, thin, raw-boned, grim-looking old man’ with a sunburned and heavily freckled face.
  • I returned to Lahore five weeks later, shell-shocked, hungry for company, but hardened, sunburned, and at least now aware of the scale of the problem. Daniyal Mueenuddin talks about his life and his first collection of short stories In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.
  • A muscular, taciturn man with callused hands and a sunburned face, Hart normally pounds rock for oil or water. Jeff Hart, Chile Mine Driller From Denver, Becomes Rescue Hero
  • Mr. Kreutz, an outgoing 36-year-old with a sandy crewcut and sunburned neck, gave up a career in finance and took over the 2,800-acre family farm after his father's death. Finance Overhaul Casts Long Shadow on the Plains
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