before dawn
Example Sentences
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Toni Morrison wrote before dawn, before her children awoke and she had to go to her publishing job.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
She said she and her partner, Michael Seward, were out before dawn.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Instead, I woke before dawn, as I had done every day for months, and walked the short distance to the hospital.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026
That involves “rising before dawn to begin the day with liturgical prayer and returning to church periodically during the day for further prayer together.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026
He looked familiar; perhaps he was one of the neighborhood boys who had fetched water at the borehole before dawn.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
