SUNBURN in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for SUNBURN, such as:

1. Then he struck his leg with his great sunburned hand.
2. Her face was crimson with sunburn and her blistered palms raw.
3. He is a tall man, sunburned, very powerful, not more than thirty.
4. Home treatment measures may provide some relief from mild sunburn.
5. If you go to beach and get a sunburn, your complexion will look florid.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUNBURN
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sunburn
 n.  redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun
Classic Sentence:
1  Her face was crimson with sunburn and her blistered palms raw.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  This hand was rough from work, brown with sunburn, splotched with freckles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  Because Bonnie liked to ride on the front of his saddle, he stayed out of doors more and the sunburn began to creep across his dark face, making him swarthier than ever.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
4  His skin was red and rough, as if from perpetual sunburn; he often went away to hot springs to take mud baths.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
5  In his eyes, there was a fagged, haunted look, and the sunburned skin was tight across the fine bones of his face--her same handsome Ashley, yet so very different.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  Sally was a wild thing, with sunburned yellow hair, bobbed about her ears, and a brown skin, for she never wore a hat.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
7  He is a tall man, sunburned, very powerful, not more than thirty.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
8  Then he struck his leg with his great sunburned hand.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
9  "You won't give anyone a chance," said Laurie, with a sidelong glance and a little more color than before in his sunburned face.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
10  Believing their danger past, they sprang from their ambush and, chirruping something in their shrill little voices and holding up their skirts, their bare little sunburned feet scampered merrily and quickly across the meadow grass.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
11  He had gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the thoughtful visage of a philosopher.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
Example Sentence:
1  If you go to beach and get a sunburn, your complexion will look florid.
2  Home treatment measures may provide some relief from mild sunburn.
3  People with fair skin who sunburn easily are very prone to develop skin cancer.
4  The risk and severity of sunburn depend on the body's natural skin colour.