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Recent Examples of sunbeam
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.
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Kate Siber, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
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
Where most anthologies spotlight each of their stories with the mono-focus of a slide projector, Falconer’s attention drifts with the warm indifference of a roving sunbeam.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2025
Rangy lodgepole pines, which constitute 80 percent of the 2.2 million-acre Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, smelled mountain fresh, and sunbeams shimmered on the water.
—Marcia Desanctis, airmail.news, 31 Aug. 2024
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Kate Siber, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
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
Where most anthologies spotlight each of their stories with the mono-focus of a slide projector, Falconer’s attention drifts with the warm indifference of a roving sunbeam.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2025
Rangy lodgepole pines, which constitute 80 percent of the 2.2 million-acre Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, smelled mountain fresh, and sunbeams shimmered on the water.
—Marcia Desanctis, airmail.news, 31 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunbeam
Noun
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The lights in the hall dimmed completely — and then the room lit up again as hundreds of small beams illuminated the space.—
RoselynMartin Somtochukwu Ilo,
Hartford Courant,
11 May 2025
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On colliding with the plasma, the beam particles are re-ionized, while the collision energy heats the plasma.—
David Szondy
May 10,
New Atlas,
10 May 2025
Noun
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Pat McGrath created moonbeams on the Grecian goddess faces of models at Schiaparelli.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
1 Feb. 2025
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Make time for the Scorpio full moonbeams to take you deeper into love for yourself, others and the sheer love of life on the 23rd.—
Debbie Frank,
Peoplemag,
5 Apr. 2024
Noun
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Wear sunscreen: Before going outside, apply sunscreen to protect your skin from the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays.—
Mark Gurarie,
Verywell Health,
14 May 2025
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In the dining room, a light installation of layered steel discs refracts rays as if guests are peeking through leaves.—
Jen Murphy,
Outside Online,
10 May 2025
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“Sunbeam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunbeam. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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