Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. Receiving lots of sunshine; frequently sunny.
WordNet
adj. covered with sunlight; "sun-drenched beaches along the Riviera"
Usage examples of "sun-drenched".
It had been worse than a deprivation to leave the coves of Crete with their sea caves and rainbow fish, the sun-drenched forests where woodpeckers chattered to Dryads, and come to the squalid town of Endor, which lay directly between Philistia and Israel and changed masters as often as the moon changed phases.
A sun-drenched landscape of poorly tiled roofs stretched away as far as I could see, forested with listing receptor aerials and ancient satellite dishes.
The cover picture was of scantily clad couples holding tall glasses and reclining in deckchairs around a sun-drenched pool.
Venice lagoon, backed by the tall Campanile and the sun-drenched colonnades of the Piazza San Marco, where the Grand Canal came sweeping out of the city, headed toward the sea.
As with many others, the sun-drenched coral islands of the Pacific had formed a staple part of my earlier reading diet, but when I incautiously sat down to take the weight off my feet and stock of the situation my youthful enthusiasms vanished pretty rapidly.
She watched a desert hawk fly toward the sun-drenched horizon, flapping its wings with slow power.
For all the savagery of the Holy Inquisition and the pitilessness with which the hidalgos enforced the expulsion, Spain and Portugal's Sephardim would never be able to forget Iberia, the sun-drenched land they had come to love, spending centuries helping to build, convinced that Jews had finally found a place of welcome and refuge.
Butch just shrugged, but the sun-drenched grass and the signs advertising Knickerbocker Beer on the outfield fences and the crowd all crazy and the Belgorvian ball-machines glinting in the sunlight and the flag waving over the grandstand behind home plate and the faint odor of buttered popcorn drifting out to center and Mr.
Now she sat on an empty oil drum beside the long lines hung with sun-drenched linens and underwear and some diapers and work clothes, smelling the laundry soap and bleach and steam, sipping a black cherry soda—.
You know, Michael, the Hawaiians claim that their hero, Maui, climbed to the top of Mount Haleakala, reached up and grabbed the sun, slowing its progress across the sky so that his island home would be sun-drenched forever.