SUNRISE in a Sentence

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46 example sentences for SUNRISE, such as:

1. To watch the sunrise must wait till dawn.
2. The box was given to Skinsky before sunrise.
3. I know there is sunrise because I am a sailor, why else I know not.
4. Viewed from the top of Mount Tai , the sunrise was indeed a spectacle.
5. When the sun was at its zenith, the glare was not as strong as at sunrise and sunset.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUNRISE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sunrise
 n.  daily event of the sun rising above the horizon
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  I know there is sunrise because I am a sailor, why else I know not.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  I have given orders to the night attendant merely to shut him in the padded room, when once he is quiet, until an hour before sunrise.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  I shall be at hand all the night from sunset till after the sunrise, and if there be aught that may be learned I shall learn it.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  If he be not at the place whither he is bound, he can only change himself at noon or at exact sunrise or sunset.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  We must sterilise all the imported earth between sunrise and sunset; we shall thus catch the Count at his weakest, and without a refuge to fly to.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  Our best hope is to come on him when in the box between sunrise and sunset; for then he can make no struggle, and we may deal with him as we should.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise; and like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  Before sunrise and sunset, however, she is very wakeful and alert; and it has become a habit for Van Helsing to hypnotise her at such times.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  Van Helsing says that our chance will be to get on the boat between sunrise and sunset.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  If, then, we can come on board after sunrise, he is at our mercy; for we can open the box and make sure of him, as we did of poor Lucy, before he wakes.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  We have only to make sure that the ship cannot come into port between sunset and sunrise without our being warned, and we shall be safe.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  The hypnotic stage was even longer in coming than before; and when it came the time remaining until full sunrise was so short that we began to despair.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  He had received a letter from Mr. de Ville of London, telling him to receive, if possible before sunrise so as to avoid customs, a box which would arrive at Galatz in the Czarina Catherine.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  The proof of this, is the letter of instructions sent to Immanuel Hildesheim to clear and take away the box before sunrise.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  The box was given to Skinsky before sunrise.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence:
1  When the sun was at its zenith, the glare was not as strong as at sunrise and sunset.
2  As sunrise and sunset are calculated from the leading and trailing edges of the Sun, and not the center; this slightly increases the duration of "day" relative to "night."
3  To watch the sunrise must wait till dawn.
4  Viewed from the top of Mount Tai , the sunrise was indeed a spectacle.