0 past simple and past participle of dawn
Gradually the truth about him dawned.
[ + that ] It eventually dawned that he wouldn't be coming back.
As a consequence, the realization dawned that the organizational separation into these social spheres generated just as many new perspectives as it hid from view.
The age of science had dawned, and grandmotherly wisdom was based on out-of-date anecdotes rather than on objective, extensive data.
It dawned on us then that the new technique was indeed very powerful, and we might be able to clone an adult mammal.
This particular way of trying to put them together has dawned on a lot of people.
It has seldom dawned on them that there may be many other possible answers.
Recently a new era seems to have dawned.
Moreover, the time of peoples' wars had dawned.
The age of the yuppie had dawned.
