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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 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, 13 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 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 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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