verb

definition

To begin to brighten with daylight.

example

A new day dawns.

definition

To start to appear or be realized.

example

I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.

definition

To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

Examples of dawn in a Sentence

It was evening in our world but dawn here.

It would be dawn soon.

The dawn brought cool air and dense fog.

Jule slept past dawn then into midday.

The infantry of the detachment passed along the road and quickly disappeared amid the trees in the mist of early dawn, hundreds of feet splashing through the mud.

She awoke long before dawn, and her eyes went to the corner where Gabriel no longer sat.

Dawn lined the horizon in faint yellow.

Just before dawn, she made herself soup and turned a box of cornmeal into bread.

From the next stall, Dawn answered.

Dawn came slowly, followed by the brilliant blue sky of morning.

By dawn they had left the wagons far behind.

When dawn neared, Jackson said, I think I'll take her upstairs.

An hour before dawn, the alarms wailed.

She set it to connect with the fed's central computer system just before dawn, hoping to draw attention away from the town of Randolph while giving her a head start.

She woke to a cool dawn.

As dawn broke, they reached the turn off to the safe house.

It was just after dawn, and the fortress was silent.

By dawn she was awake again - ready to get started.

She lifted her head from her desk and blinked, the first fingers of dawn rendering the light of the room grainy and grey.

The snow began falling before dawn, drifting down with an urgency that heralded a serious accumulation.

I was as much affected by the faint hum of a mosquito making its invisible and unimaginable tour through my apartment at earliest dawn, when I was sitting with door and windows open, as I could be by any trumpet that ever sang of fame.

Training starts tomorrow morning at dawn.

The next morning, he woke before dawn and before she did.

The problems of geography had been lightened by the destructive criticism of the French cartographer D'Anville (who had purged the map of the world of the last remnants of traditional fact unverified by modern observations) and rendered richer by the dawn of the new era of scientific travel, when Kant brought his logical powers to bear upon them.

History itself, this double subject, the science and the art combined, begins with the dawn of memory and the invention of speech.

The sheep was domesticated in Asia and Europe before the dawn of history, though unknown in this state in the New World until after the Spanish conquest.

The distressful island of Ireland was at this moment enjoying the anarchy which had reigned therein since the dawn of history.

By and by the idea would dawn on the nation that anarchy is as productive of evil as tyranny, and that a government which omits to regulate or control allows the strong to oppress the weak, and the rich to oppress the poor.

Not twenty years after Luther's defiance of the pope, the startling thesis " that all that Aristotle taught was false " was prosperously maintained by the youthful Ramus before the university of Paris; and almost contemporaneously the group of remarkable thinkers in Italy who heralded the dawn of modern physical science - Cardanus, Telesio, Patrizzi, Campanella, Bruno - began to propound their Aristotelian theories of the constitution of the physical universe.

Thus Athene is a divine name without meaning in Greek, but Max Muller advances reasons for supposing that it is identical with ahana, " the dawn," in Sanskrit.

This is also, perhaps, the proper place to observe that names derived from natural phenomena - sky, clouds, dawn and sun - are habitually assigned by Brazilians, Ojibways, Australians and other savages to living men and women.

We find, among Australian natives, among Abipones in South America, and among Ojibways in the North, actual people named Dawn,Gold Flower of Day, Dark Cloud, Sun, and so forth.

He calls his own child Dawn or Cloud, his own name is Sitting Bull or Running Wolf, and he is not tempted to explain his great-grandfather's name of Bright Sun or Lively Raccoon on the hypothesis that the ancestor really was a raccoon or the sun.

We must explain this legend, then, on these principles, and not as an allegory of the dawn as the dawn appears to civilized people.

And, further, there intervenes a remarkable passage with an account of his conflict with the divine being who fears the dawn and is unwilling to reveal his name.

The conception of reason in the world passed from him to Aristotle, to whom it seemed the dawn of sober thought after a night of disordered dreams. From Aristotle it descended to his commentators, and under the influence of Averroes became the engrossing topic of speculation.

These horses were domesticated by the inhabitants of Europe before the dawn of history.

My eyes alighted on this day in the early, still, warm light of dawn.

The Paymaster General (Dawn Primarolo) indicated assent.

Closer than ever, you are now standing at the dawn of a new and bright golden age of love and true brotherhood.

The Dawn Redwood is a strong growing vigorous deciduous conifer whose leaves are a lovely dawn pink in the spring.

Dawn O'Shea was selected for the inter-counties cross-country team.

Sometimes I rose at dawn and stole into the garden while the heavy dew lay on the grass and flowers.

When Shaftesbury wrote that "religion is still a discipline, and progress of the soul towards perfection," he gave birth to the same thought that was afterwards hailed in Lessing's Erziehung des Menschengeschlechtes as the dawn of a fuller and a purer light on the history of religion and on the development of the spiritual life of mankind.

His God is pronouncedly individual and personal, and probably Zeus had reached this stage of character at the dawn of Hellenic history.

So we find a Logos doctrine more or less prominent from the dawn of Hellenic thought to its eclipse.

There was no genuine renaissance of civilization, such as marked the dawn of modern history.

Thus the story originally told of a man or woman bearing the name " sun," " dawn," " cloud," may be mixed up later with myths about the real celestial dawn, cloud or sun.

Dr Hahn tries to prove (by philology's " artful aid ") that the name really means " red dawn," and is a Hottentot way of speaking of the infinite.

If we grant, however, for the sake of argument, that the early Hottentots worshipped the infinite under the figure of the dawn, and that, by forgetting their own meaning, they came to believe that the words which really meant " red dawn" meant " wounded knee " we must still admit that the devout have assigned to their deity all the attributes of an ancestral sorcerer.

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