Example sentences for: dawns

How can you use “dawns” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The only discordant note was sounded by the two hard-line Protestant Cabinet members, who boycotted the meeting and held a press conference ominously urging people not to "get carried away about new dawns and new days having arrived in Northern Ireland."

  • Elena barely knows what she is doing when she buys a ticket to see her father in Miami, though then it dawns on her that she wants to persuade him of something that he, like Elena herself, seems to be having trouble absorbing: that her mother--his ex-wife--is now dead.

  • The most melodically interesting track is the exhibitionist provocation of ""--a love letter to his gun--and it soon dawns on you that that's only because he's swiped the tune from Stevie Wonder's "." Otherwise, most of the creative energy seems to have gone not into the music, but into the dialogue and sound effects that precede and increasingly disrupt the songs.

  • The actor sends up his own preening aloofness, and he has never been more emotionally exposed than when it dawns on him that his smug façade has been literally penetrated.

  • That he isn't supposed to be there dawns on him about the time the masks turn his way and the conversation stops.


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