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  • verb sun tanning; getting some rays; Present participle of sun.
  • verb rare Alternative spelling of sonning.

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Examples

  • Half an hour later, I saw another marlin sunning itself and sang out.

    Summer at Sea 2003

  • "As much as I like the idea of sunning myself on the Lido deck next to John Mayer in his man-kini, it's really important to us to be at The Junos," says Ferraro.

    CHARTattack:News Feed 2009

  • To take the idea of sunning to superior level, you sun and palm varyingly.

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2008

  • The leister used in "sunning" or in "burning the water" differed somewhat in shape from the weapon with which Tam Purdie secured his big kipper.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • Some netizens thought that Zhang Ziyi was just "sunning" herself on an foreign beach.

    Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China 2009

  • Today I am searching for shieldbugs, and there they are sunning themselves on the wood woundwort.

    Country diary: East Yorkshire 2011

  • Said cutthroats are headed up by a particularly evil Jack Nicholson, as Frank Costello, who was modeled after noted Beantown bad guy Whitey Bulger who, at the time, was sunning himself in Santa Monica.

    'Safe House': Familiar Blueprint, Despite Denzel John Anderson 2012

  • In other area lakes it's actually very difficult to get close enough to a sunning gator for a half-decent photo.

    Largemouth and Lost Limbs 2009

  • The short film, which features the famously-troubled blonde mega-celebrity in all manner of brooding, bikini-clad swimming and sunning scenes; a portrait of the star that vividly evokes the decades-old cinematic tropes of sexy fragrance ads, in keeping with the floating exhibition's theme of navigating commercial and creative combinations.

    Richard Phillips' New Mini-Film 'Lindsay Lohan' 2011

  • How he staggered along until the roads sweltered with the buzz and hum of speakers situated in trees, arranged on poles along concrete roads; spoken by speakers propped on low lying sandstone and speakers covered with the vacant nests of birds and speakers where chameleons lay sunning; speakers worn and spitting dead wires and wires sparking.

    The Clown Show Robert Kloss 2011

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  • In the rare/antique book trade: A condition describing fading to pages and/or cover from exposure to light or direct sunlight.

    February 22, 2007