How to Use dawn on in a Sentence

dawn on

phrasal verb

• Morning dawns on the day of the rice harvest, the start of a new cycle.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
• The best time to see the shower will be before dawn on Dec. 22–23, according to Earth Sky.
  — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2024
• The best time to see the shower will be before dawn on Dec. 22–23, according to Earth Sky, .
  — Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2024
• The fact that there was no fortune appears to have started dawning on Sharma the night that Zac died.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• What dawned on me that day was that love-watching and hate-watching are essentially the same thing.
  — Smriti Mundhra, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
• That’s a reality that has dawned on some of the principal actors at Bucharest in 2008.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• While my mind had been racing with potential next steps moments before, this idea hadn't dawned on me.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2024
• This summer, the Perseids will peak the night of Aug. 12 until before dawn on Aug. 13, according to Space.com.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2024
• Realization instantly dawned on Maci, who jumped to hug her mom then wrapped her arms around Patrick.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 19 June 2024
• Among the most famous are the Orionids, which will peak before dawn on October 21, and the Leonids will light up skies in mid-November.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
• Ukrainian air defense teams managed to shoot down the missiles aimed at Kyiv before dawn on Monday.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Wisconsin's nine-day deer season, a staple for hunters statewide, begins at dawn on Saturday and runs through to the evening of Sunday, Dec. 1.
  — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
• The gunmen arrived at dawn on motorcycles, horses and in cars.
  — Cora Engelbrecht, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• Before dawn on March 28, Mr. Albright went to Pittsburgh for an echocardiogram.
  — Emily Baumgaertner Brian Kaiser, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• If there were any doubts that the Olympics would be a target, they were dispelled before dawn on Friday, when saboteurs carried out attacks on high-speed train lines in France.
  — Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• But eventually, the power of sports sponsorships dawned on me.
  — Michael Schreiber, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2023
• The annual Leonid meteor shower will peak late on Nov. 17 until dawn on Nov. 18.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2024
• The marine layer will form again before dawn on Saturday, becoming at least 2,000 feet deep in some areas.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023
• But by the next day, the reality of the situation seemed to dawn on Belosic, who canceled his return flight to California and joined Badalian and Rodriguez on their drive back west.
  — Samuel Braslow, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
• The low temperature dipped only to 91 degrees before dawn on Tuesday.
  — Jack Healy, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• Caravans typically meet at dawn on a Saturday in the Los Angeles area for a drive to Nevada that takes hours, and return late the following night.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
• Clean-up operations were paused Sunday night out of worker safety concerns but were expected to pick back up at dawn on Monday.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 29 July 2024
• One hour before dawn on March 19, law-enforcement officers in Little Rock, Ark., broke into a home to execute a search warrant.
  — Patrick Jaicomo, National Review, 15 June 2024
• The gravity of the problem is dawning on some members of the foreign policy community.
  — Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
• So much dawns on Richie — these bigger issues become more terrestrial.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 27 June 2023
• In the Los Angeles area, weekend caravans typically meet at dawn on a Saturday for a drive that takes hours and return late the following night.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
• When that dawned on me, I certainly was humbled by it, and knew that with that opportunity comes a great deal of responsibility.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2024
• A bit of context: Just before dawn on the seventeenth, dozens of students had fanned out across the east lawn to demand that the university curtail investments in companies with ties to Israel.
  — Nina Berman, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
• Authorities say Powell, 33, of Los Angeles, began the string of attacks before dawn on Nov. 26.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• Yet a sense of loneliness gradually dawns on him as a consequence of the aimless pleasures and social isolation.
  — Gregory M. Collins, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025