DAYBREAK in a Sentence

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50 example sentences for DAYBREAK, such as:

1. People generally do die at daybreak.
2. Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak.
3. At daybreak d'Artagnan entered the chamber, and demanded what was to be done.
4. Towards daybreak we tied up, and Jim was mighty particular about hiding the raft good.
5. Why, a man I met at daybreak this morning, just as I was going to turn into the woods for my regular sleep.

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 Meanings and Examples of DAYBREAK
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daybreak
 n.  the first light of day
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTA...
2  Fantine had passed a sleepless and feverish night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HA...
3  He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck fast in the mire.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW
4  Her face was still flooded with tears, but her eyes began to fill, like the sky at daybreak, with strange beams of joy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
5  On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
6  Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
7  At daybreak he left two intelligent men on the outlook, and returned to the Prefecture of Police, as much ashamed as a police spy who had been captured by a robber might have been.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
8  People generally do die at daybreak.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
9  It was arranged like a plot, they set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many small delights for Cosette.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
10  It was not dawn, it was daybreak; a delightful and stern moment.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
11  They must set out the next morning at daybreak, and go to Armentieres--each by a different route.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK
12  At daybreak d'Artagnan entered the chamber, and demanded what was to be done.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK
13  Why, a man I met at daybreak this morning, just as I was going to turn into the woods for my regular sleep.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI.
14  Towards daybreak we tied up, and Jim was mighty particular about hiding the raft good.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
15  When I waked up just at daybreak he was sitting there with his head down betwixt his knees, moaning and mourning to himself.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII.
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