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Examples of daybreak in a Sentence
I always seem to wake up at daybreak, regardless of what the clock says.
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The music of folklore takes its time to unfurl, ivory keys yawning at dusk, acoustic strings waking at daybreak.
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Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
Eyewitnesses described, upon daybreak, seeing a vacated stone complex that had been instantaneously reduced to rubble.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 4 Feb. 2024
The first daybreak delivery option is priced at $10 per trip and applies to customers that want items delivered in an hour or as soon as 30 minutes, according to a company statement.
—Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
By daybreak, surrounding communities were under a shelter-in-place warning that would last through the day as a container burned.
—Gregory Barber, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
Fog alerts stretched from the Canadian border to the Mexican border and reached as far east as the Northeast just after daybreak Thursday.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
The Sanderson Sisters — played with gusto by Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker — plan to steal the life force from the town's children before daybreak, and only Max, his sister Dani, and his crush Allison can stop them.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2023
Langley is part of the setup team that decides on the precise Los Angeles Country Club hole locations each day, then at daybreak moves from hole to hole, setting those pins.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
Finally, at daybreak, came the sound of approaching aircraft.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
Eyewitnesses described, upon daybreak, seeing a vacated stone complex that had been instantaneously reduced to rubble.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 4 Feb. 2024
The first daybreak delivery option is priced at $10 per trip and applies to customers that want items delivered in an hour or as soon as 30 minutes, according to a company statement.
—Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
By daybreak, surrounding communities were under a shelter-in-place warning that would last through the day as a container burned.
—Gregory Barber, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
Fog alerts stretched from the Canadian border to the Mexican border and reached as far east as the Northeast just after daybreak Thursday.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
The Sanderson Sisters — played with gusto by Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker — plan to steal the life force from the town's children before daybreak, and only Max, his sister Dani, and his crush Allison can stop them.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2023
Langley is part of the setup team that decides on the precise Los Angeles Country Club hole locations each day, then at daybreak moves from hole to hole, setting those pins.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
Finally, at daybreak, came the sound of approaching aircraft.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1530, in the meaning defined above
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