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Example sentences for "dawn"

Lexicographically close words:
dawdled; dawdling; dawg; dawgs; dawk; dawne; dawned; dawning; dawnings; dawns
  1. It would seem that from this time forth all ought to unite their efforts in order to hasten the dawn of the realization of a social environment so advantageous to all.

  2. Strange that this wonderful dream of a lost paradise yet to be regained should dawn in the hearts of all people and nations!

  3. After a little he continued: When I opened my eyes again, the glow of dawn was shining in at the church windows.

  4. Was it from the reddening dawn that now streamed through the windows?

  5. The time for such work came with the false dawn when sleep simulated death.

  6. For poor Khojee's white soul arrived at right conclusions by curious methods; she worked by them also, and, when that second dawn came, it was a very tired old woman who crept to the string bed set against the door.

  7. There was a pause as those two stood, in the dawn of another day, with that immemorial past about them, looking at each other almost doubtfully.

  8. And Lesley's mind, also, was not without its sting of remorse added to its anxiety, as she stood in the fast-lightening dawn looking out into the dim shadows for hint or sign.

  9. Most of the lights were out, only a belated lantern or two swung fitfully among the trees, but a crescent moon was showing, and there was just that faint hint of light in the sky which tells of dawn to come.

  10. The moon had gone down; the last star had burned out in the firmament; and that deep darkness which precedes the dawn was brooding over the earth as the traveller turned away from the little inn at the village of Pinkneyville.

  11. At dawn his father's best ship, the Sainte Spirite, would weigh anchor for the longest eastward voyage she had ever undertaken.

  12. Often he had to be absent from dawn to moonrise, riding on some perilous expedition.

  13. Only when dawn paled the heavens did the boldest of John's mercenaries venture back to the place of terror.

  14. For the scientist cannot put an April dawn into a bottle, cannot cabin a Hockomock marsh, nor cage a December storm in a laboratory.

  15. This is a late July day, but its dawn was still of the springtime.

  16. At dawn we shall go forth again until the evening; but with a better spirit for our labor after the fine discipline of the morning chores.

  17. I was thankful indeed to see the grey dawn slowly break upon the world of waters.

  18. The next morning, the instant the grey dawn streamed into our chamber, we sprang out of bed.

  19. One morning, however, at early dawn the sound of firing from the direction of Ostrawell called a vast number of the people of Antwerp to that side of the ramparts.

  20. With the first streaks of dawn the wind moderated, although dead ahead.

  21. There was a fair chance of being able to pass the captive through the Spanish Lines without detection, especially as it was now close upon dawn and the sentries apt, in consequence, to relax their vigilance.

  22. And would a parent be criminal, my lord," said Theodore, "if he meditated the deliverance of his child?

  23. Then he breakfasted, and that done, as the dawn broke, looked round once more.

  24. Tired out with the labours of the day, Roger Bracknell slept long and well, and woke a little after dawn with the smell of frying bacon in his nostrils.

  25. They bring news I think, for at dawn tomorrow they depart with Rayner.

  26. The winning of Rome meant the downfall of the Papacy, the triumph of liberty of conscience, the dawn of a new religion.

  27. But, whatever were the more impatient hopes of earlier years, he came to see that the dawn was yet afar.

  28. It is permitted to think that, Wagner's nationality notwithstanding, Mazzini would have recognised in him the master of the new music, whose dawn he heralded.

  29. Mouldytop was seldom seen in these days without his pot and brush; he went at it from dawn to midnight and then did overtime.

  30. A deluge of rain was always imminent, but only towards dawn arrived.

  31. From earth and earthly toil and strife To deathless aims his soul may rise, Each dawn may wake to better life, With purer eyes.

  32. Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be, As more of heaven in each we see; Some softening gleam of love and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care.

  33. The morn sends silent music down Upon each earthly thing; And always since creation's dawn The stars together sing.

  34. O long expected day, begin; Dawn on these realms of woe and sin!

  35. O, may Thy spirit gently draw Its willing soul to keep Thy law; May virtue, piety, and truth, Dawn even with its dawning youth!

  36. Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid!

  37. At dawn the giant again milked his flock, and devoured--as a relish for his breakfast--two more Greeks.

  38. At dawn Ulysses is awakened by Telemachus, and soon after the house is once more invaded by the suitors, who with their own hands slay the animals provided for their food.

  39. At dawn the pilgrims awake, and Virgil assures Dante before this day ends his hunger for a sight of Beatrice will be appeased.

  40. At dawn he hurried off to a neighboring village and secured help.

  41. This vision convinces Achilles that the human soul does not perish with the body, and impels him to rouse his companions at dawn to erect a huge pyre on the shore, where innumerable victims are to be sacrificed to satisfy his friend's spirit.

  42. At dawn the Burgundians, still fully armed, march off to church, and after service proceed with the king and queen to view a tournament held in their honor.

  43. These orders received, the archangel wends his way down to earth, where, dawn having appeared, Adam and Eve once more issue from their bower.

  44. So they pass the woods and downs, Pass the villages and towns, Hills and dales and open land, Came at dawn to the sea sand, Lighted down upon the strand, Beside the sea.

  45. The funeral train arriving there at midnight, Hagen directs the bearers to lay Siegfried's body at Kriemhild's door, so that she may stumble over it when she comes out at dawn on her way to mass.

  46. While doing so they saw the wraiths of all their kinsmen slain in the Great Battle rise from the boiling waters, and passed the night in conversation with them, although these spirits vanished at dawn into thin air.

  47. Dawn having appeared, Evander entertains his guests with tales, while his son completes his preparations.

  48. At dawn the emperor returns to Roncevaux, and there begins his sad search for the bodies of the peers.

  49. The goddess Aurora now[76] ascended wide Olympus, announcing the dawn to Jove and the other immortals.

  50. For at dawn I will return with the rising sun, bearing beautiful armour from king Vulcan.

  51. And I came to the plain from the ships, for at dawn the rolling-eyed Greeks will raise a fight around the city.

  52. There is nothing left for them, then, but to wend their way back homewards as best they can and await the dawn of day.

  53. The dawn that morning was long in coming, and when at length the grey murky light slowly forced its way through the overhanging canopy of rent and tattered cloud which obscured the heavens, wreck and destruction everywhere became visible.

  54. Soon the young aviator settled down to try to get some sleep, as some time still remained before dawn would break.

  55. They travelled warily that night, and the first of the dawn showed them the peaks of Kapaa'a, bold and beautiful, dead ahead, and growing bolder and still more beautiful with every graceful roll of the ship.

  56. Deadlier it had often been, but this was the beginning of the new life, and the dawn came to the Dark Islands in such commonplace guise as doors and windows, and chairs and tables and bedsteads.

  57. It was still dusky twilight when they three climbed the companion, to taste the sweet of the dawn and watch the perpetual wonder of the coming day.

  58. It was dawn before the noises died away, and Evans came in to them with a grim, grey face.

  59. In the east, toward Cambridge and beyond Boston, the sky was bright with the simulation of the dawn that precedes the moonrise.

  60. It was worse than the blue funk that attended the reveille for his first battle--worse than the bluer remorse that had come with the dawn after some of his more youthful sprees.

  61. Cold grew the night and colder, till Against the east the dawn glowed daffodil, Above dun wolds white with new-fallen snow.

  62. For I foresee when dawn Dark days upon our foes, and hope is gone.

  63. Nor fair The starlit nights, slow-dropping fragrant dew, Nor the dim groves when dawn came shifting through.

  64. Then came dawn--the divine dawn that looked out from beyond a depression between two peaks.

  65. There seemed to be quite a bit of activity ahead; besides, dawn was not far away.

  66. Darkness still filled the world, but dawn was not far away.

  67. Dawn was breaking and the scene was no longer drab.

  68. Down went the Mustangs, and as the dawn began to lighten the low country below, they roared across the German countryside.

  69. Times there were when they fished in plenteous company, and many a dawn would show sails all around the horizon.

  70. Dawn found them standing in between the land, with a flood tide aiding the light wind in squared yards.

  71. The grey dawn was dimming the light of the gas-jets and the morning looked clammy and cold.

  72. Breaking into the hold, they trimmed the cargo of salt, and came on deck again when the grey dawn was breaking.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dawn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alpha; aurora; beginning; birth; break; brighten; commencement; creation; dawn; day; daybreak; daylight; daytime; dusk; edge; establishment; foundation; infancy; institution; light; lighten; oncoming; onset; opening; origin; origination; outbreak; outset; prime; shine; source; start; sunbeam; sunlight; sunrise; sunshine; sunup; takeoff; threshold