Example Sentences

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Now, watching his daughter play with a plastic truck with another child, the reality of their situation was dawning on him.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2023

Now, midway through his senior season, a reality was dawning on Edwards: He might well go 0-for-college.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2021

McClatchy — the heavily indebted owner of 30 daily papers, including the Miami Herald and Kansas City Star — filed for bankruptcy reorganization just as the pandemic was dawning.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2020

He had begun to make a habit of dropping in on national day receptions, his way of telling the world that a new day was dawning in the Soviet Union.

From Time • Oct. 10, 2017

A new day was dawning, a girl-with-a-superhero kind of day.

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo