sunbeam
pronunciation
How to pronounce sunbeam in British English:
UK [ˈsʌnbi:m]
How to pronounce sunbeam in American English:
US [ˈsʌnˌbim]
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- Noun:
- a ray of sunlight
Word Origin
- sunbeam (n.)
- Old English sunnebeam; see sun (n.) + beam (n.). As "cheerful person" from 1886.
Example
- 1. Thank you again for all your kindness . Sunbeam ?
- 2. Like a sunbeam piercing through a cloudy sky , faith portends that better weather is on the way .
- 3. Thick as motes in the sunbeam .
- 4. Thy sunbeam comes upon this earth of mine with arms outstretched and stands at my door the livelong day to carry back to thy feet clouds made of my tears and sighs and songs .
- 5. The child jesus , wanting to play in the clouds , crawled into the sky on a sunbeam , but all of the playmates who followed him soon lost their faith and fell to their deaths .