I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bleached by the sun
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The wood had been bleached by the sun .
midday sun
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the full heat of the midday sun
midnight sun
noonday sun
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It was impossible to work in the heat of the noonday sun .
sun blazed down
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The sun blazed down as we walked along the valley.
sun cream
sun dip
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We watched the sun dip below the horizon.
sun god
sun hat
sun lounge
sun lounger
sun porch
sun...shining
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The sun was shining .
sun...sinking
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The sun was sinking behind the coconut palms.
the afternoon sun
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It was too hot to go out in the afternoon sun.
the desert sun/heat
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Animals shelter from the desert sun during the day.
the morning sun/light/mist
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the warmth of the morning sun
the summer sun
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They lay on the beach, soaking up the summer sun.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bright
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Dust spurted and drifted from their hooves and the bright sun flashed cruel and beautiful from their drawn sabres.
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In the middle was this bright red sun .
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Skylines peaks glistened in the bright sun , with Kanchenjunga our market straight ahead.
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The bright April sun was full in her eyes and she shaded them with one hand.
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The bright afternoon sun shone upon the glancing waters.
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The shadows are like black pits and the gaslight is too bright . Bright as the sun .
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Where is there more opportunity to enjoy the elemental values of living, bright sun and clean air and space?
early
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They have the charming habit of sitting up on their haunches and basking in the early morning sun .
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In Mackerel Cove, it was too early for sun .
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Julia took up the assembled bridle and they walked outside into the early evening sun .
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In the early sun the quinoa glows a light yellowish-green like cabbage on the turn.
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The early morning sun made even the dark distant mass of Manchester look beautiful.
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I walked the long way with the early sun bright in my eyes and frosted gravel crisp beneath my feet.
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As it crossed its own lines, a plane suddenly dived on it out of the early morning sun .
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The weather will gradually improve and by early afternoon the sun will be shining practically everywhere.
hot
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Avoid the very hot sun around the middle of the day. 3.
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We stood out in the hot summer sun , but minutes later were ushered back in.
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I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun .
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The hot sun was beginning to take its toll on the fragile trees.
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Soon, though, smoke is coming out of the straw-stack and hot sun is turning the water into steam.
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Each of these silent houses is held breathlessly still by the weight of the hot morning sun .
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Turning uphill, her mirrored glasses catching the hot sun , she looks ready to cry.
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Bwoy, you sit in de hot sun tod long.
rising
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The rising sun slowly turns the drab greys and dull browns of the mountains to patches of pale gold and dusty pinks.
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The next morning was fine and clear, after a mist was burnt off the water by the rising sun .
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I carry with me the memory of that knife's sharp flash in the rising sun .
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Outside the weather is beautiful, blue sky and rising sun .
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An artist was finishing a vigorous painting of the Angel in the Apocalypse coming from the rising sun .
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Rays from the rising sun were shining through the thick undergrowth of the jungle as we drove past.
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The rising sun appeared like a swollen red ball suspended low in the tenuous mist.
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Carbon-dioxide ice smoked all around, making a freezing fog that glowed eerily where the rising sun was trapped in its skeins.
warm
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The stone was warm in the sun , its surface striated like the trunk of an ancient tree.
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To dance is to stretch up into the warm sun or jump clear across a dauntingly large puddle.
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Michael and Hope lay on the floor of the nursery with warm sun streaming in over their lovely bodies.
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The wooden slats were already warm from the sun .
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Rose Clayton spends her days drifting on a breezy lake with the warm sun on her back.
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The Normandy countryside baked under a warm summer sun .
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She smiled and loosened, and to Carson it was like the warm sun falling on his skin.
■ NOUN
afternoon
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The afternoon sun blazed on us and her scent rose to me, together with her sobs.
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With the afternoon sun pouring through the windows, Mr Strine is on edge.
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Suddenly aware that the afternoon sun had cooled, she shivered, an inexplicable feeling of depression engulfing her.
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Morning sun is more gentle than afternoon sun.
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There, spread out below her in the late afternoon sun , was Florence.
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The earth gave off heat warmer than the afternoon sun .
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The air was filled with tear gas and hordes of these balloons floating on to the streets below in the afternoon sun .
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Shoppers peered into gallery windows and children basked in the afternoon sun , licking ice cream cones.
evening
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Though bone dry, they shone in an evening sun that dazzled us, as we linked up the infrequent holds.
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Little cameos come to mind: The glorious greens of the rolling countryside in the slanting rays of the evening sun .
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Julia took up the assembled bridle and they walked outside into the early evening sun .
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The evening sun fell low upon him.
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Three or four pine trees created a sombre atmosphere in the evening sun .
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With the evening sun shining on him here, there was a certain inevitability about Edwards's win.
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He stood wheezing contentedly in the flat evening sun .
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Another was of the château, the water of the lake glistening in the evening sun .
god
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Accordingly all over the agricultural world sun gods were created in huge numbers.
midday
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The burning midday sun roused him from a feverish sleep.
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He tied me to a post in the midday sun and ordered me to repeat his name ten thousand times.
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The inside of the car was hot from the midday sun .
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In the midday sun the flooded paddies formed a mirrored mosaic across which tropical clouds scudded in fragmented disarray.
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He walked by night and slept by day, the midday sun being too hot for him.
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The patio gets a southern exposure, and a pergola shades about 75 percent of the midday sun .
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This involves avoiding the midday sun .
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Most remarkably it continued to function under California's midday sun , when it's slate grey shell was too hot hold!
morning
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We head straight into the morning sun .
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Which areas get direct morning sun ?
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They have the charming habit of sitting up on their haunches and basking in the early morning sun .
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Which areas get direct morning sun ? Morning sun is more gentle than afternoon sun.
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Steam rises off the ground, drying the fields as the morning sun tackles the night's cold dew.
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First there was a nearly circular rim of resplendent mountains, their white caps glistening in the morning sun .
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The grass was high and golden in the morning sun .
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The color of mourning floated in the haze of the morning sun .
summer
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With the hood down my summer sun bleached hair might give the wrong message?
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We stood out in the hot summer sun , but minutes later were ushered back in.
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The summer sun shone warmly on the Cadillac Eldorado.
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Eventually it called the haze evening, even with the summer sun still pouring fire on to Congress Street.
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He could only imagine the impatience of the thousands waiting in the late summer sun outside.
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The blazing summer sun can turn their black-and-white Ford Broncos into wheeled ovens.
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The Normandy countryside baked under a warm summer sun .
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When the summer sun shines on them, they become hard and brittle, and enter a state of suspended animation.
terrace
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There is a roof-top sun terrace with panoramic views of the town and the sea, a lounge, bar and restaurant.
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It's a friendly relaxing place, with a good sun terrace and pool, and only 200 metres from the beach.
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There is a private lift down to the sea water swimming pool and sun terrace .
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The swimming pool is also surrounded by a great sun terrace .
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The lounges, card room and sun terraces all have a lakeside view.
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Outside is a garden restaurant, lawns and a private sun terrace .
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There's a swimming pool and large sun terrace and guests are welcome to use the facilities of the Montanamar hotel opposite.
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There is an attractive pool and children's pool set within landscaped gardens and surrounded by a sun terrace with sunloungers.
■ VERB
bake
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Watersports on the beach are well patronised, although most people choose simply to bake in the sun .
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I wandered through a poverty-stricken village in the countryside, flies swarming over me under a baking sun .
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All adrenalin had been used up, to be replaced by the slight madness that comes from baking in the sun .
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There had been no time to braid the garlic, which lay in heaps, reeking as it baked in the sun .
blaze
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I can almost feel the blazing sun , the blinding white beaches, although they are not in the picture.
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The blazing summer sun can turn their black-and-white Ford Broncos into wheeled ovens.
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The dry air and blazing sun made the soil crack and sizzle.
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Even as a teenager, I decided that my family would not have to pick cherries or apples in the blazing sun .
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The blazing sun and swaying boat were hardly conducive to yuletide cheer.
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Sadly, these dedicated servants end up standing in the blazing sun , a routine broken only by the occasional soaking rainstorm.
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The chopping continued in the blazing sun .
catch
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Dalgliesh could glimpse what was obviously her herb garden planted in elegant terracotta pots carefully disposed to catch the sun .
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Up in the woods many of the buds that catch the sun have begun to pop.
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Soon, they would catch up with the sun and obscure it.
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A flock of dunlin flew across the marsh in a silver swirl, catching the sun , dazzling the eye.
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Before his eyes dull muddy grass turned into soft reflective banks which caught the sun a thousand ways.
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These beautiful evergreen trees catch the sun and produce wonderful sculptural forms.
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Turning uphill, her mirrored glasses catching the hot sun , she looks ready to cry.
dry
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As the name suggests, the tomatoes are dried in the sun to make them dehydrated like a dried fruit.
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After washing, we wandered around outside the tents drying in the sun and getting dressed.
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Nails dry out in the sun , too, and need just as much loving care as your hands!
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I decided to take a lot of the fruit, and to put it to dry in the sun for a time.
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Even aquatic terrapins need to be able to dry out by sun basking.
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The meat she would dry out in the sun tomorrow.
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The nuts are picked and dried in the sun , and then placed in a fire to roast.
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I cooked it over a fire or dried it in the sun .
lie
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One of us made a fire and we brewed coffee and lay in the autumn sun .
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Speedo could lie in the island sun fully confident of his own existence; he knew he was there.
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They were content to lie there in the sun , and it was all as Cassie had wanted it to be.
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He just wanted to go fishing and lie in the sun and be with her.
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Because when the boredom begins to set in as you lie motionless under the sun , you can do your exercises then!
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Go for a swim and lie in the sun and talk about their lives.
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I retreated to leave the master to it and lay happily in the sun .
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Some people lie in the sun .
shine
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The sun is very hot and the black water is shining in the sun.
sit
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I sat watching as the sun reached its zenith and the muezzin began to call the people to prayers.
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I sat in the sun for a few minutes, naked.
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They came to read Dante, drink wine, sit in the sun and get laid.
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A few shepherds whom you could mistake for stones had they not been topped by turbans sat motionless under the sun .
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She sat back in the sun and closed her eyes.
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Bwoy, you sit in de hot sun tod long.
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You sat in the sun , the hours passed.
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Here some of the assembled company sat watching the sun set in rosy Technicolor behind a jagged peak.
soak
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Others will take it easier, relax in the garden and soak up the sun .
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Elena Fonti lay on the beach soaking up the sun .
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But everyone enjoyed the opportunity to relax, socialise and soak up the sun .
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As well as soaking up the sun , Emma says she's particularly looking forward to scuba diving and swimming in Stingray City.
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And former Boddington's beauty Mel Sykes looks about as satisfying as you can get as she soaks up the Majorca sun .
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Where fishermen once set out to sea, now travellers stop to soak up the sun which bakes the sandy shores.
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The perfect setting for relaxing and soaking up the sun .
watch
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He would watch the sun rise over the North Sea.
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I stood, instead, to watch the sun creep up by the Connecticut Capitol.
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From the balcony of the Parjatan holiday complex we watched the sun set.
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We had ended 1995 watching the sun set over the Grand Canyon.
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On the last evening of my visit to you I was standing half-hidden in the bushes, watching the sun go down.
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From his two desks he watched the sun come up on one side of Mirror Lake, blanketed in fog.
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I dimly remembered having watched the sun set, copper orange over a colourless world.
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From the outdoor tables, you can watch the sun set over the ocean on a clear evening.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
catch the sun
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A flock of dunlin flew across the marsh in a silver swirl, catching the sun, dazzling the eye.
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Before his eyes dull muddy grass turned into soft reflective banks which caught the sun a thousand ways.
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Dalgliesh could glimpse what was obviously her herb garden planted in elegant terracotta pots carefully disposed to catch the sun.
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My chair with its high back and strong iron wheels is positioned correctly to catch the sun.
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Perhaps she had caught the sun.
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Their fantastically long tails danced behind like bridal trains and burst into colour when they caught the sun's final rays.
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These beautiful evergreen trees catch the sun and produce wonderful sculptural forms.
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Up in the woods many of the buds that catch the sun have begun to pop.
make hay (while the sun shines)
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The tourists won't be here forever, so we'd better make hay while the sun shines.
soak up the sun/rays/sunshine etc
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As well as soaking up the sun, Emma says she's particularly looking forward to scuba diving and swimming in Stingray City.
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But everyone enjoyed the opportunity to relax, socialise and soak up the sun.
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Elena Fonti lay on the beach soaking up the sun.
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Others will take it easier, relax in the garden and soak up the sun.
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She had lain with Maggie beside the swimming pool and had let her whole body soak up the sun.
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The perfect setting for relaxing and soaking up the sun.
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Where fishermen once set out to sea, now travellers stop to soak up the sun which bakes the sandy shores.
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Without it, the green machinery that soaks up the sun's energy is starved.
the midnight sun
the setting of the sun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a distant sun
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That side of the house gets the most sun .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the sun rose higher in the sky the shadow shortened until noon, when it disappeared at the sixth hour mark.
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He must have it or his sorrow will spoil like milk left in the sun .
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Others will take it easier, relax in the garden and soak up the sun .
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The cold, even in the golden fragments of sun , was biting.
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The fireball sun , the treacherous sea?
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The murdering sun had dipped below the horizon, and this was the time when she could forage for food.
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The view while lying face down, shielding our eyes from the sun with our hands, was superb.
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This plant likes sun and water as well as a fertile, well-draining soil.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
make hay (while the sun shines)
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The tourists won't be here forever, so we'd better make hay while the sun shines.
the midnight sun
the setting of the sun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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We spent a week sunning ourselves on Australian beaches.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was sunning itself on the path.
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It was true there were many snakes there on hot days sunning themselves but that did not worry him.
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Lee Ann took all her clothes off and lay down to sun herself on the flying bridge.
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Or will the Chief Secretary and his friends be sunning themselves in some tax haven by that time?
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We had this balcony and I used to sit out there sunning myself with no clothes on.