sunstruck

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sunstruck

(ˈsʌnˌstrʌk)
adj
1. (Medicine) suffering from sunstroke
2. poetic (of a landscape for example) struck by the sun, having the sun's light shining on it
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Adj.1.sunstruck - lighted by sunlight; "the sunlit slopes of the canyon"; "violet valleys and the sunstruck ridges"- Wallace Stegner
light - characterized by or emitting light; "a room that is light when the shutters are open"; "the inside of the house was airy and light"
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A dark battle line lay upon a sunstruck clearing that gleamed orange color.
Sunstruck is a short variety -- just 16 inches tall -- with variegated foliage.
It includes a Cream & Powder Eye Colour in Emerald Isles/ Azure Sun (PS48), Eye Kohl Duo in Soleil Blanc/ L'avventura (PS32), Soleil Contouring Compact in Nude Glow (PS80), Sheer Cheek Duo (pictured) in Exotica Flora (PS59), Sheer Lip Color Sheer in Nudiste/Bambou (PS40), Ultra-Shine Lip Color in 11 shades (PS40 each) and a fab, does-everything Shade And Illuminate Glow Stick (pictured) in super-pretty Sunstruck (PS42).
It includes a Cream & Powder Eye Colour in Emerald Isles/Azure Sun (PS48), Eye Kohl Duo in Soleil Blanc/ L'avventura (PS32), Soleil Contouring Compact in Nude Glow (PS80), Sheer Cheek Duo (pictured) in Exotica Flora (PS59), Sheer Lip Color Sheer in Nudiste/Bambou (PS40), Ultra-Shine Lip Color in 11 shades (PS40 each) and a fab, does-everything Shade And Illuminate Glow Stick (pictured) in super-pretty Sunstruck (PS42).
As a Southern Californian, I had never known the awe of a sunstruck moment.
In the spring of 2009, my father and I went to Killeen to dispose of her estate: two single-wide trailers on adjacent lots of sunstruck land near Fort Hood, one filled with books and memorabilia, the other, unenterable, the late home of her seventeen cats.
Wet pinegrass and sunstruck lupine, midmorning in July; pipsissewa and bunchberry dogwood, cream-scented, mingling with the drier scent of paintbrush and the wet fur of a deer's belly from where it has just crashed through the sedgy marsh (that rich waterspray vaporizing in the rising warmth of the day).
MY FRIEND KHALED KASSAB WRITES two popular newspaper columns about Egyptian society: 'Sunstruck' and 'Pollen of Wisdom'.
I'm not the gung-ho fisher I once was, yet whether it's a few squid, a quick snorkel or a sunstruck idea at the jetty, I'm still feeding off the ocean in every possible sense and I owe it a debt.
Sunstruck as I am and shorn and the world's poorest woman
I see you where a butterfly Once rested on a sunstruck stone Blindly ablaze as you walked by Alone--content to be alone.
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