sunbeam
IPA: sˈʌnbim
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "sunbeam" in Sentences
- I wanted the sunbeam to stand out.
- He wasn't the only engineer for Sunbeam.
- Kiyo and Sunbeam awaken and they battle the pair.
- Then the teacher turns a sunbeam of a smile on me.
- It was the last car to bear the Sunbeam Talbot name.
- And Max is lounging on a spare laptop, in a sunbeam.
- The Sunbeam sold well, but was not a runaway success.
- It was later fitted with a Sunbeam Arab of similar power.
- This indicated that the sunbeam was pointing at the target.
- Sunbeam Theatre is one of the places that hold the tradition.
- It depicts the volcano of Fournaise, bedecked by gold sunbeams.
- 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.
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