How to Use dawn in a Sentence

dawn

1 of 2 verb
  • They waited for the day to dawn.
  • A new age is dawning.
  • Hark, the age of the non-car form of transportation has dawned.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 1 June 2018
  • For the first time in this Triple Crown series, race day dawned sunny and dry.
    Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 9 June 2018
  • The next morning, March 19, dawned clear and cold, the sun reddening the granite faces of the Drus above the Mer de Glace glacier.
    Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Christmas morning will dawn with a low of 58 and a sunny high of 78.
    Kimberly Miller, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Hopes have been revived and justice will dawn again in the region ...
    Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 10 May 2023
  • But in the era of space travel now dawning, far more of us are destined to join them.
    CBS News, 20 July 2019
  • There is a symbolic sense that a new day is dawning in the old town.
    Mike Giuliano, baltimoresun.com, 19 July 2019
  • Daylight dawned over a grim scene near an amusement park south of Tehran.
    USA Today, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Sunday will dawn crisp and chilly with readings in the upper 30s in the suburbs and 40s elsewhere.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021
  • On the morning of August 17 last year, a new era of astronomy dawned with a flash in the sky.
    Lee Billings, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2018
  • The day dawned with Elks staff cooking up a breakfast for about 260 people inside the lodge.
    Joyce Rudolph, latimes.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • But as the realization dawns a third of the way through that Hollinghurst is on the side of life, not an airless past, the walls start to come down.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The day has dawned and the weather proves conclusively that God is a monarchist.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Saturday will dawn with a chilly but dry morning, along with a blend of clouds and sunshine.
    David Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • That most of these movies end with their antiheroes jailed or dead never dawns on them.
    Pam Grady, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2018
  • But now the man with the rifle was back; a new political era had dawned in Russia.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 July 2023
  • Of course they’d never played together as the season dawned.
    Mike Nortrup, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 Oct. 2019
  • That quickly turned to dawning horror, then blind rage.
    Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • What appears to have dawned on Trump is that playing nice (or his version of nice) with Mueller isn't working.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
  • And then Fat Tuesday dawned, with crystal blue skies and temperatures in the 70s.
    Michael Dumas, AL.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • In the end, letting someone go is never easy, even in the dawning age of mass remote layoffs.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The similarities to the way things worked in mainland China dawned on her.
    Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The era of sanctimony has, in the past few years, given way to a dawning skepticism.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Morning dawned crisp and cold, weather that seemed to promise success.
    Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2018
  • There's a new era dawning in the world of YouTube and unfortunately, Logan Paul played a big part.
    Allie Gemmill, Teen Vogue, 12 Feb. 2018
  • As my exit visa failed to materialise, my naivety dawned on me.
    The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
  • His dawning awareness of others around him imbues him with a kind of heroism.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The following morning dawned clear and cold — ideal for our return run.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2020
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dawn

2 of 2 noun
  • Winter brings late dawns and early sunsets.
  • Since the dawn of cell phones, it’s been taboo to use them at the movies.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • At dawn, around 6 a.m., the spring sun was climbing above the horizon in the east.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 7 May 2023
  • At dawn, the people of Homs awoke to traces of a massacre.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
  • And, with the dawn of a new year, pop divas take over the arenas.
    Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
  • He’s described the pitch as a Biblical epic about the dawn of the Force.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
  • By the dawn of the Eighties and the end of Lear’s heyday, TV had been transformed.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Crappie feed in low light, so the best times to fish are at dawn and dusk.
    Don Wirth, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Since the dawn of dinner, food fads have formed, and fizzled.
    David Pogue, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Perhaps Drinkwitz put it best last week at the dawn of the SEC spring meetings.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 9 June 2023
  • Among those who do, many must rise at dawn to keep cooking.
    Jane Borden, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The crack of dawn is the best time to observe wildlife and witness the syrupy amber alpenglow the sun paints on mountain slopes.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
  • By dawn several dozen men regrouped by some cottages on the edge of the city.
    Oleksandr Chubko Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Fort Worth should expect our sky to look like dusk or dawn in the middle of the afternoon.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Here are the folks who were up at dawn, outside a Harlem cemetery, to defend Gotham from The Penguin.
    Vulture, 3 June 2023
  • Open from dusk to dawn every day, and free to the public, this gorgeous garden is a sight for sore eyes.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Rihanna, per usual, was way ahead of the trend; she's been rocking red-on-red-on-red since the dawn of 2023.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 12 Dec. 2023
  • This is especially true in the dim light of dawn or dusk, which is when deer are most active.
    Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 6 July 2023
  • For Lec, at a certain point, the threat of the apocalypse must have seemed as banal and routine as the dawn of a new morning.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Gusts try to ease toward dawn, perhaps 30 mph instead of 40.
    A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Schwarzenegger still wakes up at dawn with his father's phrase prompting him out of bed.
    Andrea Mandell, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Mountain lions are out and about and most active between dusk and dawn.
    Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The dawn bear was remarkably small and weighed only about 9.5 pounds at most, similar to a house cat.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • As a result, at the dawn of the 2023 season, this is a position that is probably somewhere in the middle of the pack when stacked against the rest of the league.
    Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
  • Breezes will be nearly calm near dawn, while low temperatures will stay mild, in the upper 50s to mid-60s.
    A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Clouds increase overnight, and a little light rain could arrive just before dawn.
    David Streit, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • This fun take on the classic Tequila Sunrise recalls that old adage about sailors being wary of red skies at dawn.
    Christopher Michel, Country Living, 23 Apr. 2023
  • By dawn, locally heavy downpours are likely across the area.
    David Streit, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Bears typically roam areas of 7 to 15 square miles and are most active at dawn and dusk.
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2023
  • It was hit before dawn with three rockets, then with two more rockets an hour later.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2023

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