What is "sunray"

Usage examples of "sunray".

Sunrays glinted by day from the young oceans, dazzling the eyes on Earth.

An island of some size soaked up orange sunrays and seemed to wait, curiously idle and foreboding.

Closer, crowned with her own sunrays and dressed like a classical Greek, the Statue of Liberty welcomed them.

So with human beings, they are driven hither and thither by a great force, and each, in his turn, finds the sunrays on him.

On a golden day in summer, when the sunrays were aslant, Brown arrived in Cambaroora with a little printing plant And his worldly goods and chattels -- rather damaged on the way -- And a weary-looking woman who was following the dray.

Gold-quivering like sunrays in thistle-down, Earth under rolling brown.

Decay had already done its work, accelerated by the effect of the sunrays that penetrated this spot every day.

Gerrith faced him, and her eyes meeting his were like two copper sunrays meeting ice.

Otherwise stripped to loincloth and sandals, the sacrificer wore a fantastically plumed headdress, whose golden bangles splintered the sunrays into dazzling wheels of light and which hid his head.

Above all, he could feel her eyes almost burning through his skin like a pair of sunray glasses held steady above shavings, to make them scorch and smoke and at last burst into flame.

There were a formidable number of them on the ring, so many that they couldn't lie flat against one another but stuck out like sunrays in a child's crayon drawing, but Norman had no trouble picking out the one which opened the trunk of the car.

When the sunrays at last struck full and mellowingly upon the earth, the youth saw that the landscape was streaked with two long, thin, black columns which disappeared on the brow of a hill in front and rearward vanished in a wood.

As Kamoj watched, a sunray hit the lizard’s crystal eyes and arcs of light appeared on either side of its head, an effect created by the temple’s ancient architect to mimic the Perihelia spirits, sometimes called Sun Lizards or Jul Lizards, that guarded the temple.