Definition of sunstroke in English:
sunstroke
noun ˈsʌnstrəʊkˈsənˌstroʊk
mass nounHeatstroke brought about by excessive exposure to the sun.
Example sentencesExamples
- He treated her for sunstroke and said that thirty more minutes in the sun would have ended her life.
- He extracted teeth, stitched gashes, advised on pneumonia and sunstroke, set broken limbs, used the lancet and the thermometer.
- You sure you don't have sunstroke or something?
- That same year, William Garrett, aged about twenty and travelling from Beltana to Innamincka, died of sunstroke.
- Soon after, he died of sunstroke in Georgia.
- If the men were not hit by an arrow, they would be dead of sunstroke.
- I don't want you getting sunstroke the first time you come to the beach with me
- He had been struck by sunstroke and his vision was blurred.
- There was also another wee drama when my sister Isabelle fainted from sunstroke.
- As the blazing sun beats down on them, weary Confederates are ‘nauseated and dizzy from sunstroke and heat exhaustion’, unable to bear the sweltering heat and humidity of Pennsylvania.
- ‘We must find shade and cool water or we'll all have sunstroke,’ she said grimly.
- No, you should have worn a hat and not got sunstroke.
Definition of sunstroke in US English:
sunstroke
nounˈsənˌstroʊkˈsənˌstrōk
Heatstroke brought about by excessive exposure to the sun.
Example sentencesExamples
- You sure you don't have sunstroke or something?
- That same year, William Garrett, aged about twenty and travelling from Beltana to Innamincka, died of sunstroke.
- As the blazing sun beats down on them, weary Confederates are ‘nauseated and dizzy from sunstroke and heat exhaustion’, unable to bear the sweltering heat and humidity of Pennsylvania.
- He extracted teeth, stitched gashes, advised on pneumonia and sunstroke, set broken limbs, used the lancet and the thermometer.
- He had been struck by sunstroke and his vision was blurred.
- There was also another wee drama when my sister Isabelle fainted from sunstroke.
- He treated her for sunstroke and said that thirty more minutes in the sun would have ended her life.
- Soon after, he died of sunstroke in Georgia.
- ‘We must find shade and cool water or we'll all have sunstroke,’ she said grimly.
- If the men were not hit by an arrow, they would be dead of sunstroke.
- No, you should have worn a hat and not got sunstroke.
- I don't want you getting sunstroke the first time you come to the beach with me