dawn
[dɔːn]
Definition:
1. The time of day when light first appears.
2. The first light of day.
3. The earliest period.
4. An opening time period.
Use 'dawn' in a sentence:
- The next day dawned, thankfully with a drop in wind and waves.
- The troops landed at dawn.
- The truck pulled out of the lot, its bulk unnerving against the dawn.
- The army imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
- I started work at dawn and returned only at nightfall.
- When the great day dawned, the first concern was the weather.
- In the summer, when we returned to Canada, we revisited this lake at dawn.
- I puzzled over the problem for ages before the light suddenly dawned.
- Dawn was breaking when they finally left.
- The first signs of the dawn appear on the horizon.
- It's almost dawn.
- New York buzzes from dawn to dusk.
- We woke at dawn.
- The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn achieved that goal with spellbinding results.
- He works from dawn till dusk.
- I often start work at the crack of dawn when there is a big order to get out.
- At dawn, he saw, not far away from him, a long stretch of sand.
- Paul talked unceasingly from dawn to dusk.
- What I know is, that tomorrow, at dawn, I leave this place forever.
- The cock crows and the dawn chorus begins.
- The prisoner will be put to death at dawn.
- He arose at dawn.
- The dawn raids Tuesday were carried out by about 170 policemen.
- Suddenly it dawned on me that they couldn't possibly have met before.
- They attacked the enemy positions at dawn.
- Dawn came, the sea calmed but the cold was as bitter as ever.
- Dawn was always "rosy-fingered".
- These days all sorts of people were up at the crack of dawn.
- He was awakened at dawn by the sound of crying.
- Nancy woke at dawn.
- It gradually dawned upon me that I still had talent and ought to run again.
- There's traffic in the streets from dawn till dusk.
- The day dawned sunless and with a low cloud base.
- They set forth at dawn.
- The following morning dawned bright and warm.
- They start work at dawn.
- The area was inhabited long before the dawn of recorded history.
- Slowly the awful truth dawned.
- They continued the search as dawn broke.
- I woke up just before dawn.
- She lay sleepless until dawn.
- I aim to be off the lake before dawn, so let's get moving.
- Peace marked a new dawn in the country's history.
- Soldiers stormed into the city at dawn.
- A new era seemed to be about to dawn for the coach and his young team.
- It was, if you like, the dawn of a new era.
- Throughout Europe a new railway age, that of the high-speed train, has dawned.
- They were arrested during a dawn raid.
- A new technological age had dawned.
- At dawn the army attacked the town.