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Examples of daybreak in a Sentence
I always seem to wake up at daybreak, regardless of what the clock says.
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Under the cold, slithering daybreak fog of January 8, 1815—Miss Ward favored a flowery windup—15,000 musket-wielding British soldiers stormed the only defense shielding New Orleans: an 800-yard mud barricade.
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Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
On May 5, 1862, in a small town in east-central Mexico called Puebla, 2,000 Mexican soldiers faced 6,000 French troops at daybreak.
—Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
Gobblers that didn’t assemble with girlfriends at daybreak will frequently head to a high point to strut, gobble, and command attention.
—Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2024
The music of folklore takes its time to unfurl, ivory keys yawning at dusk, acoustic strings waking at daybreak.
—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
Eyewitnesses described, upon daybreak, seeing a vacated stone complex that had been instantaneously reduced to rubble.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 4 Feb. 2024
The first daybreak delivery option is priced at $10 per trip and applies to customers that want items delivered in an hour or as soon as 30 minutes, according to a company statement.
—Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
By daybreak, surrounding communities were under a shelter-in-place warning that would last through the day as a container burned.
—Gregory Barber, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
Fog alerts stretched from the Canadian border to the Mexican border and reached as far east as the Northeast just after daybreak Thursday.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
On May 5, 1862, in a small town in east-central Mexico called Puebla, 2,000 Mexican soldiers faced 6,000 French troops at daybreak.
—Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
Gobblers that didn’t assemble with girlfriends at daybreak will frequently head to a high point to strut, gobble, and command attention.
—Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2024
The music of folklore takes its time to unfurl, ivory keys yawning at dusk, acoustic strings waking at daybreak.
—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
Eyewitnesses described, upon daybreak, seeing a vacated stone complex that had been instantaneously reduced to rubble.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 4 Feb. 2024
The first daybreak delivery option is priced at $10 per trip and applies to customers that want items delivered in an hour or as soon as 30 minutes, according to a company statement.
—Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
By daybreak, surrounding communities were under a shelter-in-place warning that would last through the day as a container burned.
—Gregory Barber, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
Fog alerts stretched from the Canadian border to the Mexican border and reached as far east as the Northeast just after daybreak Thursday.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
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“Daybreak.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/daybreak. Accessed 14 May. 2024.
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daybreak
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