Definition of sunbeam
: a ray of sunlight
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Then, as Mr Moscato leaves, a sunbeam suddenly lights up her apartment.
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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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Sunbeams had lanced the darkness, and the flying foxes were returning to the tree to roost.
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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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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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Fat, orange sunbeams peeking through Brooklyn treetops, recorded with the gorgeous grain of actual 16mm film.
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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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