Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Overcome by the heat of the sun; affected with sunstroke.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Overcome by, or affected with, sunstroke.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lighted by sunlight
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Examples
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In his tent, her face proved even more radiant, her eyes and hair shining like sun-struck amber.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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In his tent, her face proved even more radiant, her eyes and hair shining like sun-struck amber.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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The "summer work" includes broadly handled, accomplished watercolors of New England houses, waterfront buildings, a sun-struck beach scene, and the mysterious "Day After the Funeral" 1925, a dramatically empty corner with a fragment of an abruptly cropped Victorian building, a looming wall of trees, and a small, bent figure.
A Peek Behind Those Paintings Karen Wilkin 2011
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The sun, Mr. Cohen notes, has been central to the myths of every culture, though it 's a mystery why Daedalus and his sun-struck son Icarus show up only in a footnote on page 487.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Giant Star ANN FINKBEINER 2010
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Connie had left him, and he lived at the Criterion Hotel in Moree, a town of broad sun-struck streets out of which such hotels as the Criterion rose like galleons.
Travel: Dickens down under Thomas Keneally 2010
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Glen glanced down at the squinting sun-struck boy, who was about the same age as his own son, Brett, a nine-year-old.
Beard 2010
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I picture him eating through his final cracker and then heading out alongside the ways of the water — running in a dark streak over the sun-struck stones and the swells of the earth and in between the trees that hover over the river — that deep, thick river that takes all the unwanted things out of this wonderful city I live in.
Temporary Housing 2009
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I picture him eating through his final cracker and then heading out alongside the ways of the water — running in a dark streak over the sun-struck stones and the swells of the earth and in between the trees that hover over the river — that deep, thick river that takes all the unwanted things out of this wonderful city I live in.
Temporary Housing 2009
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The chugging sound of the bobber will often entice sun-struck fish.
Jerry's Tips: Catch Bigger Fish More Often, Bring in More Birds, and More... 2005
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His beauty was like a sword unsheathed, bright as sun-struck steel and twice as hard.
Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003
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