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
• Spring humidity hangs in the air as sunbeams poke through the tree canopy.
  — Matt Blitz, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2020
• Sunbeams had lanced the darkness, and the flying foxes were returning to the tree to roost.
  — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• 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
• Benign bubbles, sunbeams and kisses bounce among holes, necks on the block and wolves.
  — Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times, 4 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• There is a peculiar pattern to the silhouettes of leaves quivering against the sunbeam on the floor.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 28 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• This satellite, called LightSail 2, is sailing on a sunbeam.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 31 July 2019
• In the updated kitchen, sunbeams from a skylight fall onto the island range like a cooking-show spotlight.
  — Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Still, even if Sofia is brought low for a large part of the story, Brooks’ radiant performance is one of the chief sources of the movie’s levity, constantly breaking through like sunbeams through cloud.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• But alien sunbeams are not the only type of interstellar messenger.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2020
• 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
• Fat, orange sunbeams peeking through Brooklyn treetops, recorded with the gorgeous grain of actual 16mm film.
  — Jordan Hoffman, VanityFair.com, 23 Jan. 2017
• Kirchheimer films the face of these cities with an ardor for details, a fervent love of beauty, of line, form, color—and of the bewitching random wonders of reflections and shadows, the passage of pedestrians and the glint of sunbeams.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2017
• Also ideal for an inhabitant who spends a lot of time photo editing: The huge windows, blocked by a neighboring wall, let in a soft, ethereal light rather than harsh sunbeams.
  — Amanda Sims, House Beautiful, 28 June 2019
• Onstage, Serratos’ Selena is a human sunbeam bathing her audiences is heat, light and boundless cheer.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
• 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
• But Méndez turns the play into a moving character study that — moon-referencing title notwithstanding — is as sharp as a noon sunbeam.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• Then came an eruption of colors: vivid patterns of palm trees and sunbeams printed on stiffened, corrugated fabrics that Mr. Green said were inspired by the thought of venturing toward paradise.
  — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 13 June 2017
• Bringing more natural light into the home was another request, so Cohen introduced a large staircase window and a second window in the dining room to allow sunbeams to spread far and wide.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 10 May 2023
• Errant beams of sunlight are a clichéd way of illuminating a hidden treasure, but that didn’t stop a California sunbeam from solving a 90-year-old mystery at the fabled Hearst Castle.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024