sunbeam
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- noun
- /ˈsʌnˌbiːm/
- The children laughed as they chased the sunbeam that filtered through the trees in the park.
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- Everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being, whoever was lived on this mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Examples
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As they were moving westward, Pronek felt the warmth of a sunbeam tickling his neck.
Fiction book (2000) -
The deep furrows in the plowed field were smooth, and where an accidental sunbeam hit them, they shone.
Fiction book (1996) -
I know a sunbeam when I see one.
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Three days later, as a sunbeam entered the cave, one of the eggs broke apart.
Fiction book (1997) -
This warm sunbeam just nails my face and just warms my whole body.
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And sitting in a wheelchair in the path of one lonely sunbeam is Kato.
Fiction book (1997) -
All of a sudden, a sunbeam crossed my kitchen table and lit up my crystal salt shaker.
Academic text (1999) -
Sunbeams radiant and warm
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Only high above, in the canopy of the eucalyptus trees, pale sunbeams sailed.
Fiction book (1996) -
As the curtain opened, a beautiful sunbeam streamed across the stage, illuminating the dancers.
Synonyms
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A narrow line of light like a sunbeam
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A narrow column of light that you can see in the air
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A narrow beam of light you can see shining through darkness
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A narrow beam of sunlight that shines through clouds or windows
A beam of sunlight that comes into a room at an angle
Light from the sun that shines on a place
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Etymology
The word sunbeam is made of sun and beam, and beam originally meant 'ray' or 'shaft of light', like a long 'stick' of sunshine reaching down. So a sunbeam is a ray of sunlight you can see as it passes through the air.