1897 ‘F. Macleod’ 134 The sun-splashed, rain-drenched, mist-girt, storm-beat wood of human life.
1904 R. Kipling 280 The sun-splashed gloom of the riding-school.
2006–7 Winter 10 Intentionally castaway on a sun-splashed Maldivian island with nothing but each other, a gourmet picnic hamper [etc.].