crack of dawn
Example Sentences
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They don’t leave until the crack of dawn.
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026
Around the crack of dawn, a line begins forming at a strip mall in Hyattsville, Maryland, as residents ranging from students to delivery workers and federal contractors wait to sign up for food assistance.
From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026
Some shoppers say they got up at the crack of dawn to wait outside their local branches of the coffee chain, only to find they were too late.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
We’re introduced to him not as a thief, but as a doting father who wakes at the crack of dawn, tenderly lays his son in bed next to his sister, and heads off to work.
From Salon • Sep. 7, 2025
Mr. Grote has become even more distant, up at the crack of dawn to go hunting, then skinning and smoking the meat at night.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
