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Example sentences for: dawned

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The switch dawned on me one morning 10 years ago as I found myself flipping through the Post because I had to, not because I wanted to--and reading the Times for the joy of it, not because it was the newspaper of record.
It just dawned on Prudie that she should perhaps say Bryn Mawr "women" instead of "girls," which is, alas, a hint that Slate 's Prudie was a little before the class of '68.
Rather than distinguish these varieties of consumer experience, Frank stuffs everything into the boxes of "square" and "hip"--receptacles that were already full back when the '60s dawned.
I'm sure this idea has already dawned on the state party committees.
Then it dawned on me: What if Slateness, as embodied by the magazine and the pants, wasn't as cool as I was assuming?