sunburn

[ UK /sˈʌnbɜːn/ ]
[ US /ˈsənˌbɝn/ ]
NOUN
  1. redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun
  2. a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
VERB
  1. get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
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How To Use sunburn In A Sentence

  • These conditions are challenging - retaining acidity and preventing sunburnt fruit are two of the main problems - but the abundance of very young vines is still a huge factor limiting the overall quality.
  • When a person has any kind of injury - a broken shin, for example, or a sunburn - the pain system becomes hypersensitized, firing up in response to normally painless sensations induced by, for instance, walking or a gentle massage. Undefined
  • I must have cut a wretched figure, filthy and sunburnt, to the brother who heard my explanations about who I was and why I was here.
  • 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.
  • At harvest the apples are little Snow White albino apples, so you unbag them for a few days until they take on a sweet little rose blush, like a sunburn on a virgin's buttock! Everything2 New Writeups
  • 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.
  • Sitting in the lobby of Taj Coromandel and sipping a rich brew of cappuccino, pony-tailed and wearing sunburnt, athletic skin of a western beach boy, Nadaka seems far removed from the austerity of Auroville.
  • It is hard to imagine six men crossing the Pacific without any sunburnt backs or peeled noses. Times, Sunday Times
  • Combined with the lobster-red sunburn of my torso and the lily-white band about my middle created by my downturned long-john, I resembled a cylindrical French flag.
  • 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.
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