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sunbeam
[ suhn-beem ]
noun
- a beam or ray of sunlight.
- Australian Slang. a dish or utensil that has not been used during a meal and so does not have to be washed.
sunbeam
/ ˈʌˌː /
noun
- a beam, ray, or stream of sunlight
- slang.a piece of crockery or cutlery laid for a meal but remaining unused
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Derived Forms
- ˈܲˌ, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲb ܲby adjective
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Mom gave him a look that was all sunbeams.
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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.
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A sunbeam spotlighted the rise and fall of his white belly.
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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.
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When car exhaust and refinery hydrocarbons, which we had aplenty, are bombarded by sunbeams — voila— we get ozone, a principal ingredient in smog.
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