DAWNING in a Sentence

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224 example sentences for DAWNING, such as:

1. Day was dawning when they again emerged.
2. Victory was dawning on the battle front.
3. The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
4. To watch the sunrise must wait till dawn.
5. However long the night, the dawn will break.

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 Meanings and Examples of DAWNING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dawning
 n.  first light of day; first advent or appearance
Classic Sentence: (200 in 14 pages)
1  Mammy was torn between indignation at the very idea of her two hundred pounds scooting anywhere, much less to the attic, and the dawning of a horrid suspicion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
2  That's your home, mumbled Scarlett, toying with a pillow and keeping her eyes down to hide dawning triumph in them as she felt the tide turning her way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
3  But, after all, it was the life she had been made for: every dawning tendency in her had been carefully directed toward it, all her interests and activities had been taught to centre around it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
4  For a horrible suspicion had begun dawning in his mind; he knitted his brows more and more as he read.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  And now, Marie," said St. Clare, "your golden days are dawning.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  Such was the young clergyman's condition, and so imminent the prospect that his dawning light would be extinguished, all untimely, when Roger Chillingworth made his advent to the town.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
7  Wednesday morning was dawning when I looked out of window.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
8  They asked her,' said Noah, who, as he grew more wakeful, seemed to have a dawning perception who Sikes was, 'they asked her why she didn't come, last Sunday, as she promised.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
9  Day was dawning when they again emerged.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
10  Bonaparte, at his dawning, had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
11  The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory of the morning.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—DAWN
12  So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  A damp dull autumn morning was just dawning.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER V
14  They lived and ate together, studied and worked, hoped and harkened in the dawning light.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
15  It suddenly dawned on Tom that it was become very lonely and still.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  Victory was dawning on the battle front.
2  Daylight was dawning; a troop of horses coming from Latium caught sight of the shining helmet of Euryalus and challenged him.
3  So, the order indicates the end of one day is followed by the dawning of the next day.
4  The day dawned sunless and with a low cloud base.
5  When the great day dawned, the first concern was the weather.
6  The awful truth about his disappearance finally dawned on her.
7  It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of great whole of life dawn on you.
8  The enemy troops moved in on the city and began to attack at dawn.
9  To watch the sunrise must wait till dawn.
10  The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
11  However long the night, the dawn will break.
12  Missile attacks on the capital resumed at dawn.
13  In the cold dawn light, the castle looked stark and forbidding.
14  In the east we could see the first faint glimmer of dawn.
15  The UN rescue operation started shortly after dawn.