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
• Along with its vein of absurdist and juvenile humor, there's a core of sweetness and dawning decency that will mark much of the Adam Sandler canon.
  — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2023

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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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024