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Meanings of sunray (sunrays) in English

Portuguese
raio de sol
Catalan
raig de sol
Spanish
rayo de sol

NDutcarrow ray of sunlight.

raio de sol

Herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizona.

Usage of sunrays in English
1
Each camera was emitting a faint beam, like the last evening sunrays.
Artemis Fowl
2
There were opals, shimmering in the sunrays, alive with inner fires of flame-color.
Virgilia; or, Out of the Lion's Mouth
3
It floated in a shimmering cloud through the angled sunrays.
Speaks the Nightbird
4
The back of her hair was starting to glow from the dipping orange sunrays.
The irish warrior
5
Quite suddenly the luminous figure, with the sunrays behind its head, stood in front of me.
There was a King in Egypt
6
Under the glowing sky Rome stretched out in its immensity, empurpled and gilded by the slanting sunrays.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2
7
No less remorselessly the flood of hot white sunrays burned away the shadow tapestry of the valleys.
Bloom of Cactus
8
Near the base of the canon wall a dark patch on the ledges was shimmering in the sunrays.
Bloom of Cactus
9
The clouds were tinged an earthlike yellow in the sunrays and in the shadow were a sorry blue.
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
10
Gentians (distilling the blue of spring skies) and primroses ('the first sunrays!') amid the weathered rocks.
The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
11
Your solar sedan will take energy from sunrays and store it in accumulators that work like a battery.
BBC
12
And the oblique sunrays were enfilading the compartments of the railway carriage, filling them with dancing, golden dust.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 1
13
And, do you remember, there's a dash of shadow on that side; while here the sunrays fall quite straight.
His Masterpiece
14
This does protect us from ultraviolet (UV) sunrays, thereby decreasing our risk for skin cancer and aging early.
Ebony
15
On the pillow with lace it was difficult at first to distinguish where the sunrays ended and the maiden's hair began.
The Argonauts
16
No, I will just shake my soft beard of fine mist back and forth across the sky, a spectrum for the sunrays.
Over the Pass
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Translations for sunrays
Portuguese
raio de sol
Sunrays through the time