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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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 Elisabeth G. Stryker
I will try to perfect all the rich possibilities that are dawning in his childish soul.
From Little Eyolf by William Archer
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
We discover ourselves in the midst of the most fundamental transformations of life; old ideals are vanishing, and new ones are dawning on the horizon.
From An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy by W. Tudor (William Tudor) Jones
