How to Use dawn on in a Sentence

dawn on

verb
  • More rain fell before dawn on Sunday.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The witches meet characters who work to stop them before dawn on Halloween night.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That’s when something blissfully tragic dawned on Ziani.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Then another repercussion dawned on him.
    — Christina Binkley, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2025
  • That was the backdrop at Apple Park before dawn on Tuesday.
    — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
  • This annual spectacle will peak during the hours before dawn on May 5.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 3 Mar. 2026
  • This marked the second time in a week that the Heat won on the second night of a back-to-back despite their flight arriving close to dawn on a game day.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The rain will continue most of Tuesday night, tapering off around dawn on Wednesday.
    — Terry Eliasen, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • At night, clouds increase as overnight temperatures cool down to around 53 degrees just before dawn on Thursday.
    — Roberto Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Through the night, the moon tracks a low, arcing path over the southern horizon, before finally setting in the southwest at dawn on May 2.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 1 May 2026
  • In Lyons’ view, reality dawned on Atkins after his cortisol levels dropped.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Watch late on the night of November 17 until dawn on November 18.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Before dawn on Thursday, scenes of relief and celebration began streaming in from Gaza.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The campers and counselors were killed when the fast-rising floodwaters roared through a low-lying area of the summer camp before dawn on the Fourth of July.
    — Dallas Morning News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The crew blasted off before dawn on Friday morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
    — Lydia Calitri, NPR, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Getting the balance right is becoming even more critical as machine learning and agentic AI dawn on process industries.
    — Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • Snow timeline for Massachusetts Snow will arrive before dawn on Saturday.
    — Terry Eliasen, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Those charges all stem from a crash that occurred around dawn on July 31, 2022, in Strongsville, about 20 miles south of Cleveland.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 21 May 2026
  • Early risers will have a chance to spot a different planetary grouping in the hours preceding dawn on June 30, as the lunar disk draws close to the southwestern horizon.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 1 May 2026
  • Before dawn on July 18, 1858, Carrington was suddenly called home.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The object appeared just before dawn on October 27, according to multiple people on social media.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • As Victor Wembanyama swatted away another one of his shots, something dawned on Julian Champagnie.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Earlier this year, the Mars Odyssey captured a dazzling image showing an unprecedented view of a 12-mile-high volcano poking through clouds at dawn on the red planet.
    — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Tips for Watching the Blood Moon The eclipse begins well before dawn on the East Coast and in the predawn hours across the country, so preparation matters.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Those charges all stem from a crash that occurred around dawn on July 31, 2022 in Strongsville, a city located 20 miles south of Cleveland.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 21 May 2026
  • Peak activity is expected between midnight and dawn on October 21, StarWalk said.
    — Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Saturn, meanwhile, will appear as a steady star-like object shining low on the eastern horizon in the hour preceding dawn on May 2, with the red light of Mars glowing to its lower left, almost lost in the glow of the rising sun.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • And even now, years after those conversations, new information arrives by virtue of it dawning on me that my father and Jane were in college during World War II, for example.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Temperatures will begin to fall late Sunday, Nov 9, and should bottom out before dawn on Tuesday, the National Weather Service says.
    — Mark Price november 5, Charlotte Observer, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Colorado Snowsports Museum By dawn on the 19th, the 10th has accomplished the what the Germans assumed impossible, and seized control of the ridge.
    — Logan Smith, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2026

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