Example Sentences

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But start to walk around the soaring gallery of “Off-Grid” and it will dawn on you: there is no familiar electrical brightness here, only whatever light streams through distant windows.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2022

But after a champion is crowned Sunday evening, Monday morning will dawn with the same nagging questions: Who will leave next?

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2022

In 2024 or so, Dr. Christakis said, the postpandemic stage will dawn.

From Washington Times • Feb. 11, 2022

BERMAN: You think it will dawn on people that the economy is perhaps being retarded by lack of lending?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2016

Then it will dawn on you: I did something big, because I had to.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin