The sun was an orange ball of fire and its rays burned their way into his skull.

"Those rays will be burning through us pretty soon."

But the bright rays can also burn their subject, and occasionally, the entire spotlight falls with a thud on the newly minted star's head.

The sun's rays can burn you even if the air feels cool, and sunlight reflected off water or snow can be particularly powerful.

Up here, when the sun shone, its rays could burn the skin off your face and hands; the same was true of an ice storm.

Dracula then suffers a slow and painful death as the solar rays burn his body to ashes.

Its rays burned across the waters.

He threw himself to the floor as a crackling ray burned across the space near where he had stood.

Almost immediately I could feel the rays burning through my shirt and making me sweat again.

Armor plate vaporized, the ray burned through, the enemy weapon went dark.