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As if to partake of this same sense of luxury, four grass snakes of varying lengths sunned themselves by the willow patch – pencil-thin youngsters and a thick-waisted adult who was entwined like rope in a mat of dead reeds.

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2011

Turtles sunned on logs, and huge canebrakes filled the backwaters.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Turtles sunned on logs, and huge canebrakes filled the backwaters.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Here in a bathhouse made of fresh-cut logs they changed into their bathing suits, swam, went boating in the warrior canoes he had brought back from the South Seas, sunned themselves on the dock, played leap frog and jousted, Indian-wrestled and boxed, dumped into the lake men who went boating in their street clothes.

Jack London's Bath and Boathouse 2010

A pair of mallards sunned themselves on plump moss.

Country diary: Hay-on-Wye 2011

We drove all the way to California, to Newport Beach and Balboa and Catalina Island, where the water was a deep turquoise blue, almost as mesmerizing as the Midland sky, and blubbery brown sea lions screeched and sunned themselves on the jagged rocks.

Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

The men played golf, and the women sunned by the pool.

Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

— One morning this month, 27 harbor seals sunned themselves on the sand in a tiny cove, striking banana-shaped poses as tourists snapped pictures.

Should Sealing Off Seals Get the Seal of Approval in La Jolla? Miriam Jordan 2010

Besides recounting how they sunned themselves, authorities said, the men admitted, for example, that they made up nonexistent chemicals that they said they sprayed on her property.

Handymen did job on elderly D.C. woman 2010

We lie down next to each other in the mooned black and I feel her warm sunned skin against my skin.

Sisters At The Lake 2010