dawn
noun
the first appearance of daylight in the morning.
are dawning
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present progressiveof dawn.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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And now, Marie," said St. Clare, "your golden days are dawning.
From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Hear me, my Queen, This is a dream, a new dream, but a true; For mightier days are dawning on the world Than heart of man hath known.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred
Lo! other times are dawning o'er us: Be blotted out, our short disgrace!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
THEAETETUS: The difficulties which are dawning upon us prove this; for one objection connects with another, and they are always involving what has preceded in a greater and worse perplexity.
From Sophist by Plato
I see also a row of girlish faces, in which Christian and womanly graces are dawning.
From A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818 by Stryker, Elisabeth G.
