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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 That shadow isn’t perfect, so faint sunbeams sneak around the shadow’s edges on all sides in the colors of a sunset, bathing the moon in brilliant, warm hues.—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Feb. 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 See All Example Sentences for sunbeam
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of sunbeam was
before the 12th century
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