How to Use sunbeam in a Sentence

sunbeam

noun

• For me, these songs hit like a sunbeam in the midst of a thunderstorm.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2020
• Leave the sunbeams shining through your windows to your pets and plants.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• Spring humidity hangs in the air as sunbeams poke through the tree canopy.
  — Matt Blitz, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2020
• Here, love is sublime but elusive, like trying to catch a sunbeam in the palm of your hand.
  — Jason Lamphier, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
• Benign bubbles, sunbeams and kisses bounce among holes, necks on the block and wolves.
  — Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times, 4 May 2018
• Sunbeams had lanced the darkness, and the flying foxes were returning to the tree to roost.
  — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• The long entrance, sheltered by cedar planks, stops at a sunbeam yellow front door, which is framed in steel with glass above and to the side.
  — oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2020
• Like so much of Montana, the unbound sky was bold and giant, rolling with storms, then cast with sunbeams and blue.
  — Andrew Evans, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
• Earth, seen as the faint dot in a sunbeam, is 4 billion miles away in this image from Voyager 1.
  — Shannon Stirone, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2017
• Matted fur can trap heat and lead to overheating, even when felines are inside resting in a sunbeam.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026
• The camera’s gaze rises to the wall behind Haemi, where a sunbeam briefly appears.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
• Lit only by faint shards of sunbeams, Jupiter and the rest of the outer solar system’s worlds are realms of mystery.
  — Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024
• Also consoling were the calls of unfamiliar birds and the play of sharp sunbeams cutting through the thin twigs.
  — Werner Herzog, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• There is a peculiar pattern to the silhouettes of leaves quivering against the sunbeam on the floor.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 28 June 2019
• Then, as Mr Moscato leaves, a sunbeam suddenly lights up her apartment.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• In one canvas, a columnar sunbeam floats against a white wall; in another, cars are faintly reflected in glass.
  — Adam Gordon, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2017
• 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.
  — Staff, cleveland.com, 10 Nov. 2017
• But alien sunbeams are not the only type of interstellar messenger.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2020
• Floor-to-ceiling sunbeams are composed of cascading orchids.
  — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
• The winter sunbeams slanted in their gentle way, as if coaxing color from the land, and all the brown and grey plants looked gilded in the morning light.
  — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
• For every sunbeam of humanity Fraser lets shine through this soul, the film summons a half-dozen dark clouds to try and dampen it.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
• According to the brand’s website, the designer was inspired by a sunbeam that reflected off of his gold art deco lighter.
  — Hannah Malach, WWD, 14 July 2024
• But through the eye of the camera lens, the sunbeams seemed to multiply, all but obscuring the stately, two-century-old building.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
• The new features are part of the overall trend of video platforms bending toward one another like indoor plants jockeying for the same sunbeam.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 11 July 2024
• If, after unfurling, pinholes on all five Kapton layers were to line up, this would let a sunbeam through, heating the optics.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
• Tropical plants, photos of exotic locales and brassy inlays are throughout, as well as the obligatory dog splayed on the floor in a sunbeam.
  — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2023
• The sperms are the moonbeams and sunbeams and shadows of every thought, half thought, and follicle of feeling that have attended you since your first breath of hardship.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• The air- craft-grade aluminum handle is engraved with a sunbeam line that is not only artsy, but also improves grip and functionality.
  — Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2021
• Each of these robotic heliotropes are at the beck and call of an algorithmic conductor, which directs them to focus their sunbeams toward a small target on the tower.
  — Wired, 22 Nov. 2019
• Onstage, Serratos’ Selena is a human sunbeam bathing her audiences is heat, light and boundless cheer.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020