(v. i.) To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
(v. i.) To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
(n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
(n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Greek police have said the 45-year old man arrested over the attack has admitted being a member of the extremist Golden Dawn Party.
(2) Far from securing the regime change they were seeking, the creditors now find that Syriza is being supported by all Greek political parties apart from the communists and the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.
(3) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
(4) Short of setting up a hotline to the Met Office – or, more prosaically, moving to a country where the weather best suits our condition, as Dawn Binks says several sufferers she knows have done – migraineurs can do little to ensure that the climate is kind to them.
(5) Activity was stimulated by the change in illumination levels at dawn and dusk.
(6) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
(7) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
(8) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
(9) In the worst cases, they are the 21st-century equivalent of the desperate dawn queue at the Victorian factory gate.
(10) North American box office estimates, 8-10 April The Boss: $23.48m - NEW Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: $23.435m.
(11) As far as I recall, getting up at dawn is not easy when you're 17.
(12) I think it takes some serious balls to respond the way I did.” Controversy followed him to his homeland overnight when the Australian former Olympic swimming champion Dawn Fraser said of Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic , who criticised Tennis Australia and was subsequently dropped from the Davis Cup team: “They should be setting a better example for the younger generation of this country, a great country of ours.” “If they don’t like it, go back to where their fathers or their parents came from.
(13) There had been simmering tension between the Tottenham Hotspur manager and officers since a dawn raid on his Dorset home that was watched by press photographers.
(14) Dawn, 43, a former journalist has left the life she had behind.
(15) Timing of insulin injections will frequently need to be adjusted to blunt the dawn phenomenon.
(16) Only now is the full effect of the NHS act dawning on its strongest advocates.
(17) The often confusing circumstances that led to their courts martial and the ruthlessness of their punishments only fully came to light with the publication in 1989 of Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes's history Shot at Dawn .
(18) Plasma cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone levels increased and growth hormone (GH) decreased significantly during the dawn period.
(19) Ten minutes' walk away is the wonderful Blaise Hamlet (open dawn until dusk).
(20) If the Coalition keeps going down the current path, its most enduring achievement will be the dismantlement of the equity-based federal funding settlement achieved under Whitlam and the dawn of a new era of evidence-less policy making.
Sawn
Definition:
() of Saw
Example Sentences:
(1) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
(2) Radiological findings on sawn sections and macroscopical and histological analysis of the retropatellar surface give evidence of osteoarthritic alterations and inflammation.
(3) The long bone ends of foals with infectious disease were sawn into sagittal slabs, washed and inspected.
(4) His wife, still recovering from the car "accident", tried to fight Seddon when he produced the sawn-off shotgun.
(5) The bone samples were embedded in methylmetacrylate and sawn in 400 microns thick sections with an arbitrary rotation but a fixed vertical axis.
(6) His hair, once memorably described as "a bit of an event", soars upwards in a sort of sawn-off pompadour.
(7) The African elephant, whose left tusk was sawn off, was a gift from a Portuguese king to Louis XIV in 1668.
(8) Afterwards, these jaws were sawn, and the real values were measured.
(9) When Scotsman Harry Stanley was killed by police in the same year after leaving a London pub carrying a table leg and being mistaken for an Irishman with a sawn-off shotgun he was demonised as a feckless drunk.
(10) You have done so by the barbaric act of shooting them at point-blank range with a sawn-off shotgun."
(11) As far as Bingham was concerned, wrote le Carré in the introduction, he was "a literary defector who had dragged the good name of the service through the mud", who had "supped at King Arthur's table, then sawn its legs off", and it was "no good my protesting I was engaged in a literary conceit".
(12) Therapeutically the procedure described by LADD is the best torsion prophylaxis; the ascending colon is sawn to the descending colon.
(13) In sixteen cases the claw was amputated under the coronet and in the remaining sixteen cases the claw was sawn off above the coronet, through the second phalanx.
(14) After polymerization the embedded filter was sawn into small blocks and the cell layer was sectioned tangentially on an ultramicrotome.
(15) No effect on low level of gamma-globulins and lymphatic displasia was found as sawn in an intestinal biopsy performed after three months of treatment.
(16) Some wore quilted affairs like sawn-off dressing gowns.
(17) Sixteen hours after he first drew a sawn-off shotgun from a bag and ordered the cafe closed, police stormed the building to end the standoff, Monis killed cafe manager Tori Johnson , and Monis and barrister Katrina Dawson were left dead following the gunfight.
(18) Since December we have been heating our home with a wood-burning stove using reclaimed materials - and if the bits are too large to go in, they have to be sawn in half.
(19) You obtained a sawn-off shotgun from criminal associates.
(20) The three men then drove all four victims, including the baby, to a remote area, where Lockett shot Neiman with a sawn-off shotgun after she refused to say she would not report them to police.