sunbaked

There are a dozen Kurdish fighters manning an opposing sunbaked checkpoint.

Jack Kilmeny had not been brought up in the dry sunbaked West for nothing.

As sleep in that sunbaked oven of a room was impossible, the traveller sent for a carriage and went for a drive.

Their voices died away, and with them the dry noise of stones falling downward from their feet on the sunbaked mountain-side.

One of his boots had also burst, his wide hat was shapeless, and sunbaked mire clung about him to the knees.

For a moment the two stood, side by side, behind the trunk of the live oak, peering out over the sunbaked plain.