Definition of sunbeam
: a ray of sunlight
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Errant beams of sunlight are a clichéd way of illuminating a hidden treasure, but that didn’t stop a California sunbeam from solving a 90-year-old mystery at the fabled Hearst Castle.
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Later, at school in a science class, the teacher showed us a glass prism that, when placed in a sunbeam, cast a little rainbow onto the desk.
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Then, as Mr Moscato leaves, a sunbeam suddenly lights up her apartment.
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In one canvas, a columnar sunbeam floats against a white wall; in another, cars are faintly reflected in glass.
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Then came an eruption of colors: vivid patterns of palm trees and sunbeams printed on stiffened, corrugated fabrics that Mr. Green said were inspired by the thought of venturing toward paradise.
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The supernova campaign serves as a reminder, whether comforting or terrifying, that humanity exists on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam, as Carl Sagan once wrote.
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Kirchheimer films the face of these cities with an ardor for details, a fervent love of beauty, of line, form, color—and of the bewitching random wonders of reflections and shadows, the passage of pedestrians and the glint of sunbeams.
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Hin Lad Nai, ThailandIn the dark, unfurnished room where Chaiprasert Phokha sits, in a house on stilts, a sunbeam falls through the pane-less window and fills a glass jar with amber light.
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First Known Use of sunbeam
before 12th century
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