sunbeam
Example Sentences
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Kristin Chenoweth is a dazzling performer—a sunbeam who shines so brightly when she steps on a Broadway stage you might be tempted to reach for sunglasses.
The classrooms are also bathed in daylight via skylights and clerestories, with sunbeams touching the playfully angled surfaces.
From Los Angeles Times
On a frigid Wednesday afternoon, sunbeams poured into Maurice Sendak’s studio in Ridgefield, Conn., crisscrossing one another with the precision and warmth of the children’s books that were born in this room.
From New York Times
As Voyager 1 raced past Neptune on its way out of the Solar System, it turned its cameras back towards Earth and photographed a tiny speck, gleaming in a sunbeam.
From Scientific American
When car exhaust and refinery hydrocarbons, which we had aplenty, are bombarded by sunbeams — voila— we get ozone, a principal ingredient in smog.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
