Sunbake

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

To bake in the sun..

Definitions by Sense

1. To bake in the sun.
2. (Australia, New Zealand) To sunbathe.
3. (Australia, New Zealand) A session of sunbathing.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.'

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

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• sunbakes
• sunbaking
• sunbaked

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