sunbeam

IPA: sˈʌnbim

A visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.
(Australia, colloquial, dated) An item of cutlery or crockery laid out on a table, but not used, and which can be returned to the drawer without being washed.
Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Curetis.
Any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis.
(UK) Synonym of sunshine (“ironic form of address to an inferior or troublemaker”)
An unincorporated community in Moffat County, Colorado, United States.
An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Illinois, United States.
An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States.

Examples of "sunbeam" in Sentences

And Max is lounging on a spare laptop, in a sunbeam.
She was a very grave "sunbeam" when she set out to walk to church -- and as clear!
It had moved out away from me on the current and was glittering like a sunbeam on the water.
T.J. gave Margaret a sunbeam smile and strutted confidently through the doors of what was soon to be his office.
Then I admitted defeat and crawled away to the bedroom, where I lay in a sunbeam and smelled the spring unfolding outside the open window.
That's all of us - everybody you know, everybody you love, everybody you ever heard of lived out their lives there, on a mote of dust in a sunbeam.
Survey-ships and detectors were out; the scientists of the Patrol had been for months hard at work on the "sunbeam" -a device to concentrate the energy of the sun into one frightful beam.