Example Sentences

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In a comment published today in Nature Geoscience, they argue the new epoch may have dawned in 1959, thanks to Luna 2.

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2023

The latest example is outside linebacker Frank Clark, who didn’t leave under hostile conditions but stated what has become a motif among those who have dawned the blue and green.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2023

I suppose it should have dawned on me then that she was turning eschatological.

From BBC • May 23, 2020

I thought about a stark reality that might have dawned on you already about the novel Coronavirus of 2020.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2020

Yet awareness of the fact that insects possess an effective counterweapon to aggressive chemical attack seems to have dawned slowly.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson