Meaning & use
sunray
A single beam of light shining directly from the sun.
See it in a sentence
A warm sunray broke through the clouds and lit up the garden.
Dust floated visibly in the sunray streaming through the window.
A note on using this word
Sunray is most often written as 'sunbeam' in edited prose, though both forms appear in everyday writing.
Words with a similar meaning
sunbeam
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