Definitions

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  • adjective Enjoying a great deal of sunshine.

Etymologies

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sun +‎ swept; compare windswept.

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Examples

  • Along the roadside, alone in all that sunswept space, little girls in multicolored Berber costume held out bouquets of flowers — violets? poppies? — which we were afraid to stop and accept.

    ‘My Father’s Tears and Other Stories’ 2009

  • Oh ... take these new lake isles and green green seas; take these sylvan ponds and soaring trees; take these desert dunes and sunswept sands, and pour them through your empty hands.

    Scion of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • Oh ... take these new lake isles and green green seas; take these sylvan ponds and soaring trees; take these desert dunes and sunswept sands, and pour them through your empty hands.

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • Oh ... take these new lake isles and green green seas; take these sylvan ponds and soaring trees; take these desert dunes and sunswept sands, and pour them through your empty hands.

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • The sunswept park was full of hammering and sawing and shouts and bursts of laughter.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • The trail shimmered under a mirror of heat in the sunswept region.

    A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

  • we understood the perils of our lovely, sunswept land.

    2009 February « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2009

  • we understood the perils of our lovely, sunswept land.

    Fire/Poem « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2009

  • we understood the perils of our lovely, sunswept land.

    2009 February 12 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2009

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