dawnlight

Example Sentences

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The house was dusky with dawnlight creeping in around the edges of the blinds.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Bluish dawnlight seemed to tint their scrawny bare arms and legs a deeper, ghastly blue.

From Restricted Tool by Morehart, Malcolm B.

It fronted the rising sun now and a world, all ocean and sky, over which lay a rose dawnlight.

From Angel Island by Gillmore, Inez Haynes

But the grey, grey company  Stood every man alone In the chilly dawnlight,  Scarcely had they known Ere the day they perished,  That their beacon-star Was not glint of marsh-light  In the shadows far.

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Stevens, Bertram

It was best seen from the island of Vanuatu in the south Pacific from just after dusk to the hour before dawn when its glow was overwhelmed by the dawnlight.

From The Runaway Asteroid by Cooper, Michael D., [pseud.]