Risk being burned, in a way

Usage examples of bask.

Don Tarquinio lay astretch on the Persian rug, basking in the firelight with superb indifference to the possible ill-humour of Lady Anne.

Savage in a powder-blue suit with shoulder pads which would not have disgraced an American foot baller She was firmly ensconced in the one easy chair, basking in a pale ray of sunlight which cut across the room and which made her earrings sparkle.

It had driven their ATV across the mountains and down to the Penskava farm in the uplands above Basking Springs.

He stood, silently absorbing her like a plant basking in the rays of the sun.

Hunkapa Aub sprawled nearby, basking gloriously in the heat of midday.

They found Shimoda there, lying on a straining imitation-wood lounge, basking in the sun like a beached beluga.

The Autothor blazed briefly as it addressed the contented humans who lay on the shore of the artificial ocean, basking in the warm heat of an artificial sun.

Then all things around them, below and above, Were basking as now in the sunshine of love-- In the days that are gone, by this sweet-flowing stream.

After a while of basking in pleasant silence in the spring sun, as if she had just that instant recalled their conversation, she turned back to him.

The ranger nodded, and gradually, as he dismissed the negative assumptions and began basking in the reality of the situation, a smile widened across his handsome face.

Gwaltney had found himself basking in the effervescence of her presence.

The festoons of lead-ropes, saddles, saddlebags, stirrups, surcingles and girths, reins, bits and bridles, martingales, cruppers, and breastplates about his ears were disturbed only by a scuttling of serpiginous rock-lizards that were in the habit of basking daily on the outer walls.

Only the lizards--they lived in chinks of the crumbling adobe and in interstices of the sidewalk--remained without, motionless, as if stuffed, their eyes closed to mere slits, basking, stupefied with heat.

Secure on our hill, undriven by any task-master, provided with food in plenty, they basked for hours, lying flat on the back, and played exaggerated pranks, sometimes in a languid spirit of ease and sometimes with the greatest activity of movement.

Their greatness hath perished from them, they sleep amidst ruins, their palaces and their shrines are tombs, the serpent coils in the grass of their streets, the lizard basks in their solitary halls.