dawns 1 of 2

plural of dawn

dawns

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of dawn

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of dawns
Noun
There have been several false dawns with reports about a new series or movie circulating for years. Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025 Over the last 12 years since Sir Alex Ferguson retired, there have been so many false dawns about United rekindling their glory days. Joe Prince-Wright, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dawns
Noun
  • Only light from Earth's atmosphere reaches the moon, and light reflected from Earth's sunrises and sunsets can give the moon a reddish color.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island sits directly on the beautiful Atlantic coast, where mornings start with breathtaking sunrises over the ocean and high-speed connectivity makes remote work seamless.
    Cassidy Randall, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The theme of training camp and the preseason was for the Bengals to avoid the slow starts that plagued them in the past, so starters played in the first two preseason games.
    Jason Hoffman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Or the skewering and scathing kind from social media, where everyone’s a target by armchair quarterback blowhards, including over four mixed starts at Arizona State in 2023.
    Joe Davidosn, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The practice week begins in earnest on Wednesday.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • When the sun begins to dip, head over to the Catalina Casino.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The beginnings of it are depicted in true disaster movie style, with ominous music and a collapsing electric pylon that causes a faulty cable to fall to the ground.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Here is the emphasis on the hardscrabble beginnings and obstacles to be overcome, here is the recognition of a truly raw but once-in-a-lifetime talent that converts the nonbelivers, here are the early wins and the training montages and the tragedies and the comebacks.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • According to scientists, a molecular dipole arises when a molecule has partial positive and partial negative charge regions, giving the molecule an overall polarity that points in a specific direction.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
  • And then, of course, what happens is the streaming world arises.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Netflix has come a long way from its DVD-by-mail days to become a streaming giant stacked with the buzzy new releases and top-performing originals.
    Emy LaCroix, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The wildfire has burned 13,966 acres after being active for five days.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There’s now just one last day of preseason games before the NFL commences its regular season.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Cade Klubnik is already getting high praise before the season even commences.
    Cecil Merkerson, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Once my teen started her period, mornings came with a different type of stress that wasn’t related to school outfits.
    Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Flights will depart from California on Saturday mornings and return from Hawaii on Sunday afternoons.
    Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Dawns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dawns. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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