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sunbeam

[suhn-beem] / ˈsʌnˌbim /




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This was confirmed when I eventually turned it out of the cake pan onto a baby blue cake plate, dappled by late afternoon sunbeams.

From Salon

Side channels glow with sunbeams that find their way through the hemlocks, firs, cedars and ferns.

From Seattle Times

The photos from this series include such purely visual attractions as milky light, fractured sunbeams and powdered pigment suspended in midair during Holi, the Hindu festival of colors.

From Washington Post

Think palm prints, sunbeams and warm California hues.

From Los Angeles Times

The sunlit surface of the sea blooms with phytoplankton, zooplankton, algae, bacteria and other minuscule life, all feeding on sunbeams or one another.

From New York Times