sunstroke

[ UK /sˈʌnstɹə‍ʊk/ ]
NOUN
  1. sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat
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How To Use sunstroke In A Sentence

  • He started back to the club, but it was so hot that he thought he would faint before he got there; so he called a hansom, on the principle that it was cheaper to ride and keep well than to walk and have a sunstroke. Van Bibber and Others
  • Angles are distorted or lightly sunstroked; everything is stylised. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the men were not hit by an arrow, they would be dead of sunstroke.
  • I was suffering from acute sunstroke, starvation and exhaustion. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
  • He treated her for sunstroke and said that thirty more minutes in the sun would have ended her life.
  • You sure you don't have sunstroke or something?
  • By this time I had added sunstroke and dehydration to being absolutely knackered.
  • In the end we both had the same special chapter for our certificates, sir -- frostbite, sunstroke, and sudden childbirth. HUMAN VOICES
  • The sun is more dangerous too so inevitably some people got sunburned or got sunstroke; others were bitten by strange insects - there were lots of bugs!
  • There was also another wee drama when my sister Isabelle fainted from sunstroke.
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