How to use "dawn" in a sentence

They made her get up before dawn every day and do all the dirty jobs around the house, while Eponine and Azelma wore pretty clothes and played with dolls

At dawn the next day, M

There was, however, still a trace of beauty in the sixteen-year-old lace, like pale sunlight beneath the thick clouds of a winter's dawn

'The dawn seems to be coming up over there, behind those hills

'That's not the dawn,' he said, 'that's Manderley.'

They go to bed at dawn, get up in the afternoon, and they lose track of what day it is

The vision was so vivid, so disturbing, that she and her husband raced back to the city that very night to have the grave reopened at dawn

They arrived at the grave by dawn, had it opened, and found their son alive, released from his coma

This he did, soon after dawn

The fires had died down now, but the ruins of broken and burnt-out houses and blackened trees were clear in the cold light of the dawn

As the dawn grew brighter, we moved back from the window where we had watched and went very quietly downstairs.

Unable to learn what was happening from his window, my brother went down and out into the street, just as the sky turned pink with the dawn

And in the sky above them, the dawn was growing brighter - clear and calm.

Before dawn the Black Smoke was pouring through the streets of Richmond

You can understand the wave of fear that swept through the greatest city in the world at dawn on Monday morning

Our situation was so strange and unbelievable that for three or four hours, until the dawn came, we hardly moved

But before dawn my courage returned, and while the stars were still in the sky I turned again towards Regent's Park

I lost my way among the streets, and soon saw down a long road, in the half-light of the early dawn, the curve of Primrose Hill

The curtains of my study blew out of the open window from which I and the soldier had watched the dawn

I heard the noise of playing children and remembered the deep silence of the dawn of that last great day...