How To Use Daybreak In A Sentence

He's come back to scrounge a meal and a bed, and he'll be off with what he's managed to steal before daybreak. THE BLACK OPAL
Hytra Grouper on a bed of salicornia and spinach accompanied with a crayfish sauce scented with pelargonium at Hytra It's daybreak at Athens' Agora, or central market, and the air is buzzing with the cries of fish mongers hawking the day's catch. Not Your Typical Greek Salad
It was around midnight and I'd only completed four pitches since daybreak.
The time was just before daybreak, an hour when the uneasiness of the air affected trees and animals, and made even men-sleepers turn over sighingly. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
They would be awakened before daybreak and by eight had already had prayers and a math or science lesson.

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When he came nearest to the scientific spirit of his time, in zealous observations of the life of nature, he characteristically concentrated on the sequence of various bird notes at daybreak and the flight of moths as the stars of twilight were kindled. Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 - Presentation Speech
Israeli infantry and armor rolled away from the town of Beit Hanoun and the nearby Jabaliya refugee camp shortly after daybreak, witnesses said.
Come daybreak, the atoll was about three miles (five kilometers) away and had rough water.
We even relocate daybreak and sunset, which, one might surmise, are logical ways to determine the beginning and end of a given day, within the compass of clock-time.
At daybreak families emerge from their walled houses with cups and toothbrushes.
At last he consented that I should stay with him till just before daybreak, which is in that, as in most climates, the coolest time generally of the twenty-four hours. Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas
At daybreak a slight haze hangs over the city, throwing all the colours into sharper relief. YELLOW BIRD
At daybreak the sun rose, bringing with it all the mutable, fierce, subtle colors of the world, restored, brought back to life, reborn. THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
By daybreak the streets surrounding the site of the former World Trade Centre were bustling with people - many carrying American flags or wearing stars-and-stripes shirts, ties and bandanas.
Although this has by no means been proved, yet I cannot help calling the attention of the members of this society to a fact which I think strongly bears out the said theory: While watching a gathering of _Vaucheria_ one morning when the plant was in the gonidia-forming condition (which is usually assumed a few hours after daybreak), I observed one filament, near the end of which a septum had formed precisely as in the case of ordinary filaments about to develop a spore. Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884
To avoid climbing in the heat of noon we decided to leave at daybreak.
First there is the crepusculum, or daybreak, and so it shines brighter to the meridian. The Lord's Prayer
At daybreak, as he awakened again and struggled to sit up, a crowd of peasants gathered around him.
The event ends when it ends, sometime during the night, and by daybreak it's done for another year.
Three hairdressers appeared at daybreak in order to ready my hair for the wedding.
The speaker circumvents the threat of potentially fatal contraction by becoming like the sun, by becoming what he beholds: "We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun," and the daybreak is suddenly "calm and cool" (564-5). 'Points of Contact': Blake and Whitman
Then they slept till daybreak, when the battle-drums beat to fight and the swords in baldric were dight; and war-cries were cried amain and all mounted their horses of generous strain and drew out into the field, filling every wide place and hill and plain. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He had come in at daybreak from the neighboring village, with the news that the old mother had been run over by a cart at the fair and could not travel for many days. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
About two hours before daybreak you will hear the red monkey moaning as though in deep distress; the houtou, a solitary bird, and only found in the thickest recesses of the forest, distinctly articulates "houtou, houtou," in a low and plaintive tone an hour before sunrise; the maam whistles about the same hour; the hannaquoi, pataca and maroudi announce his near approach to the eastern horizon, and the parrots and paroquets confirm his arrival there. Wanderings in South America
At daybreak Miss Logan, now wearing the pistol at her belt, set off down the mountain with the guide.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... Marianne Mollmann: Race, Class and Justice in the U.S. Legal System: Still a Long Way From the Promised Land
This accident, together with the crazy condition of the ship, which was little better than a wreck, prevented her from getting off to sea, and entangled her more and more with the land, so that the next morning at daybreak she struck on a sunken rock, and soon after bilged and grounded between two small islands at about a musket-shot from the shore. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
At daybreak on a chilly mid-October morning, Phipps' imposing fleet arrived in the harbour.
The rain left off at daybreak.
It was a four-days 'hard march to the locality where Captain Buxton counted on finding his victims; and when on the fourth day, rather tired and not particularly enthusiastic, the command bivouacked along the banks of a mountain-torrent, a safe distance from the supposed location of the Indian stronghold, he sent forward his Apache Mojave allies to make a stealthy reconnoissance, feeling confident that soon after nightfall they would return with the intelligence that the enemy were lazily resting in their "rancheria," all unsuspicious of his approach, and that at daybreak he would pounce upon and annihilate them. Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier
At daybreak, her father went out looking for his daughter and at 10 am reported her missing.
I stayed on the arête, reaching its top by daybreak.
At daybreak, Doune woke with a startled jolt of fear, looking around and telling himself it was only a dream.
At daybreak my socks and boots were frozen solid, but the valley warmed fast when the sun topped the snowcapped peaks.
Five of us squashed rapidly into a two man tent and despite the odds slept until daybreak.
At daybreak yesterday we were steaming up a branch of the great Me-kong river in Cochin China, a muddy stream, densely fringed by the nipah palm, whose dark green fronds, ten and twelve feet long, look as if they grew out of the ground, so dumpy is its stem. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
At daybreak or dusk, the pyramids most resemble the limestone monuments seen by the old explorers.
And then, at daybreak also, choppers and fixed-wing aircraft were out here, an armada of them, dumping thousands upon thousands of gallons of water on the hot spots and on the flames.
At daybreak he was [already] managing accounts and at the same time supervising the workers.
Instead of the warm reds, oranges, yellows, pinks, and indigos, it was replaced with the cool colors of daybreak: pale blues, gold, lavender, and pale yellows.
Well, I wasn't going to spend the next 15 hours until daybreak in the van, so a quick evening snifter in Bude seemed in order before searching for somewhere to pull up for the night.
Seizing this opportunity, Dineh quietly loosed his bonds and fled through the night. At daybreak the Utes woke up.
During the mid-day heat the animals take a siesta, so much of the wildlife activity takes place around daybreak and sundown.
The mountains of Flinders Island visible at daybreak off port. The Whale Warriors
A squadron of mosquitoes -- a sort of _escadrille de chasse_, as it were -- kept me awake until daybreak, when they were relieved by a skirmishing party of _cimex lectulariae_, which are well known in Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
Daybreak is still some way ahead and daybreak can take care of the things unto itself. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
Shopkeepers and stallholders preparing the Kingsland Market began to emerge at daybreak.
Heard a gobbler just about daybreak - that's all I can show for the morning.
Low tide would be at three twenty-one the following morning; an hour after daybreak and two hours before dawn.
Israeli infantry and armor rolled away from the town of Beit Hanoun and the nearby Jabaliya refugee camp shortly after daybreak, witnesses said.
Every morning at daybreak we would hear hauntingly long-drawn fluid birdcalls.
By daybreak the yards that back onto Ten-Mile Creek were filled with its overflow.
The three had opened their eyes soon after daybreak and lay in their cots "chirruping," as their mother called it -- talking, planning out a campaign of adventures for the long two days before them. Major Vigoureux
Kallolo, who had started as he intended at daybreak, returned in the evening with the materials for his blowpipe, and the ingredients for manufacturing the woorali poison. The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco
Conditions were so bad that emergency crews were told it was too dangerous to try and restore power before daybreak.
At the daybreak of April 3, 1652, it mounted a surprise attack on the camp of Khabarov's troop at the outlet of the Uslee River in the lower Amur.
But he did not come: he was having a very serious talk with the Chinese admiral; at daybreak, however, the gig was reported in sight: Sharpe told one of the midshipmen to call the boatswain and man the side. Great Sea Stories
Landfall came just before daybreak Monday near the city of Naples on Florida's southwest gulf coast.
Having survived the night, we woke to a daybreak as magical as any I can recall.
Next morning at daybreak, the infirmarian found him lying in peaceful prayer, so peaceful that he did not at once perceive that the saint was actually dying. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
By daybreak, the elephants were gone, and in their place came a troupe of perhaps 60 baboons, some descending from the mopane trees to lift anything moveable, their pals defecating from a great height on the car.
True, there was a little stir -- a little abiding of shepherds in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night -- a little buzzing in knots of men waiting to be hired before the daybreak -- a little stealthy movement as of a burglar or two here and there -- an inchoation of life. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
I may have had some brief conversation with my parents but the night's final conclusion was a dive for my bed, where I stayed unmoving until daybreak.
At daybreak they lay up together in a place she showed him deep within a spinney.
Three hairdressers appeared at daybreak in order to ready my hair for the wedding.
Then, just as I thought daybreak was near, a great mopoke flits close over our heads without any rustling or noise, like the ghost of a bird, and begins to hoot in a big, bare, hollow tree just ahead of us. Robbery Under Arms
He's come back to scrounge a meal and a bed, and he'll be off with what he's managed to steal before daybreak. THE BLACK OPAL
At daybreak, the boats returned to the shore and the merchants busied themselves with buying and selling and the transport of the goods and gear till nightfall, whilst Hasan lay hidden beneath the settle, weeping-eyed and woeful-hearted, knowing not what was decreed to him in the secret preordainment of Allah. Arabian nights. English
When the freedman had ceased speaking, Vetranio sat up on the couch, called for a basin of water, dipped his fingers in the refreshing liquid, dried them abstractedly on the long silky curls of the singing-boy who stood beside him, gazed about him once more, repeated interrogatively the word 'daybreak', and sunk gently back upon his couch. Antonina
The law of South Carolina permits the master to _compel_ his slaves to work fifteen hours in the twenty-four, in summer, and fourteen in the winter -- which would be in winter, from daybreak in the morning until _four hours_ after sunset! The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
He was now comparatively in paradise, and slept sound till daybreak, when he awoke, and was terribly afraid on observing that his nocturnal operations had altogether uncovered the dhuiniewassell's neck and shoulders, which, lacking the plaid which should have protected them, were covered with _cranreuch_ (_i. e._ hoar frost). Rob Roy — Volume 01
At daybreak Billy Buck emerged from the bunkhouse and stood for a moment in the porch looking up at the sky.
Those of us who went to bed at daybreak went down late in the morning to find the ship anchored and Frank and the early risers with the light tackle out catching small baitfish 3 and 4 at a time.
By daybreak, rucksacks are white with frost inside the tents.
Original had "daybreak"; changed to "day-break" to be consistent with other occurrences in the text. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2
Daybreak this morning the Hambleden lockkeeper, one Perry Smith, opens the sluicegate to fill the lock for an early traveler, and a body rushes through it into the lock. Leave the Grave Green
He was now comparatively in paradise, and slept sound till daybreak, when he awoke, and was terribly afraid on observing that his nocturnal operations had altogether uncovered the dhuiniewassell's neck and shoulders, which, lacking the plaid which should have protected them, were covered with cranreuch (i.e. hoar frost). Rob Roy
It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
I remember being very happy in Ramadan, since during that time of the year I could see Abu Hussein, the musahharati who used to bang the drum and wake people up for suhur — the early morning last meal the faithful are allowed to have before daybreak, when actual fasting starts. Global Voices in English » Palestine: Remembering Shafiq Al Hout
I had to ride out in the morning, so I planned to get up at daybreak.
Sheridan for dinner, Colman for supper; Sheridan for claret or port, but Colman for every thing, from the madeira and champagne at dinner, the claret with a _layer_ of _port_ between the glasses, up to the punch of the night, and down to the grog, or gin and water, of daybreak; -- all these I have threaded with both the same. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
Le lever du soleil dans la baie d'Agay/Daybreak at Agay's bay le lendemain (lahnd-man) noun, masculine French Word-A-Day:
The fires signalled to something else as well ... Shortly before daybreak Tallis was woken by the distant sound of a hunting horn.
By daybreak the streets surrounding the site of the former World Trade Centre were bustling with people - many carrying American flags or wearing stars-and-stripes shirts, ties and bandanas.
People interested in cohousing and considering Portland should check out Daybreak Cohousing, www. daybreakcohousing.org in north Portland. Co-Housing Trend Hits Seattle « PubliCola
We fought all through the night until daybreak, where only three warriors remained standing.
I am becoming a thin line as I walk toward the streak of daybreak light in front of me. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
The fires signalled to something else as well ... Shortly before daybreak Tallis was woken by the distant sound of a hunting horn.
A second meal, the suhur, is taken just before daybreak. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
It is a little after daybreak. We pack hurriedly and sneak out of the hotel.
The Palm-Sunday procession moved to a tent or chapel at some distance from the church, whither the Blessed Sacrament had been conveyed at daybreak, and returned preceding two priests bearing the Blessed Sacrament in a feretory on their shoulders. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
DAYBREAK WAS HOURS AWAY, but the corridors of the Great Hall in the First City susurrated with the ominous undertones of a government preparing for war. A Time to Kill
But though DAYBREAKERS wobbles they set up a glorious ending, then make it much less effective, and anybody who's watched CNN will immediately think up a simple and effective tactic that the vampires for some strange reason fail to use, there are little things all through the movie that make you realize, "Okay, they didn't think of *everything,* but at least they thought about *some* things. Quick review: DAYBREAKERS
Jouvert originates from the French word 'jour ouvert,' meaning daybreak or morning, and signals the start of Carnival. Fat Tuesday Festivities
The show began officially on Thursday morning before daybreak.
The eye of the storm was officially recorded as striking the tiny town of Buras, about 40 miles south-east of New Orleans, with 145 mph winds at daybreak.
At daybreak the guns of the castle began to play upon the mosque, and, some of the shot penetrating its walls, the pusillanimous Jemal al-alum, being alarmed at the danger, judged it advisable to retreat from thence and to set up his standard in another quarter, called kampong Jawa, his people at the same time retaining possession of the mosque. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
The sacred cross is the intersection of the cracks of daybreak and nightfall. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
At daybreak the farmer rose and fed the horses and cows.
We crossed the line of departure at daybreak in formation as a column of platoons.
At daybreak, Tamora woke Cleo and took her to wash in the river.
In the morning he watched with unseeing eyes the headland come out a shapeless inkblot against the thin light of the false dawn, pass through all the stages of daybreak to the deep purple of its outlined mass nimbed gloriously with the gold of the rising sun. Within the Tides
At daybreak, I found Jonathan hopping around the deck with halyards and ropes.
As the execution was to take place as soon as it should legally be daybreak, that is, about half-past four o'clock, the brothers did not go to bed but sat up in the workroom, feeling somewhat drowsy, and exchanging few words. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
The wood in the half-light waking at daybreak to the belling of stags that bursts into barks.
Miss Betty, waking at daybreak, saw the motes dancing in the sun at her window, and watched them with a placid, unremembering eye. The Two Vanrevels
At daybreak each mirror array will turn sunward, and concentrated light will heat a Stirling engine held at the focal point, driving pistons and making electricity.
I like to get up before daybreak and get my roadwork done.
By daybreak on July 6, the gray ribbon of retreating Confederate infantrymen and artillerists still extended for about twenty miles, from Waynesboro to outside Fairfield, Pennsylvania. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
At daybreak the sun rose, bringing with it all the mutable, fierce, subtle colors of the world, restored, brought back to life, reborn. THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
The wood in the half-light waking at daybreak to the belling of stags that bursts into barks; the wood doubled over the prestissimo riffs, the wood enjoying the sea's sport.
Small puffs of cloud lay low in the east, like a flock of sheep at daybreak, waiting for the gate of the fold to open.
When the ravens tap, tap, tapped on the window at daybreak I was not happy.
Many visitors, he said, preferred to see the ancient stone circles at daybreak or at sunset.
He was now comparatively in paradise, and slept sound till daybreak, when he awoke, and was terribly afraid on observing that his nocturnal operations had altogether uncovered the dhuiniewassell’s neck and shoulders, which, lacking the plaid which should have protected them, were covered with cranreuch Rob Roy
Captain, who had eaten nothing since daybreak, was chiefly interested by the smoke which ascended from the castle chimneys, and the expectations which this seemed to warrant of his encountering an abundant stock of provant, as he was wont to call supplies of this nature. A Legend of Montrose
Evenings are cool, and it's misty at daybreak, but by midday the sun can still be punishingly hot.
The older adults played vingt-et-un (Twenty-one) or other card games while the young danced and engaged in flirtations until the party dispersed near daybreak.
The acute policy dictating these movements was sufficiently vindicated at daybreak, by the sight of a long sleek on the sea directly and lengthwise ahead, smooth as oil, and resembling in the pleated watery wrinkles bordering it, the polished metallic-like marks of some swift tide-rip, at the mouth of a deep, rapid stream. Moby Dick; or the Whale
_ -- At daybreak a speck was seen in the horizon; now it is visible above the hollow wave, now curtained from our sight by the swelling billow: we approach nearer; the speck divides, and two spots appear; they are Calypso's Isles, -- Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
That which on earth is called diffusion of light, that luminous matter which the air holds in suspension, which creates the twilight and the daybreak, which produces the umbrae and penumbrae, and all the magic of chiaro-oscuro, does not exist on the moon. Round the Moon
He will pass the coming night in a fandak, and leave as soon after daybreak as the gates are opened. Morocco
A large fan-shaped window in the front stairwell shows the sun at daybreak illuminating dangling wisteria vines.
Then they slept till daybreak, when the battle-drums beat to fight and the swords in baldric were dight; and war-cries were cried amain and all mounted their horses of generous strain and drew out into the field, filling every wide place and hill and plain. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He's come back to scrounge a meal and a bed, and he'll be off with what he's managed to steal before daybreak. THE BLACK OPAL
At daybreak on the morning of departure the charvadars wake us up by pounding on the outer gate and shouting "hadji" to Abdul Abdul lets them in, and the next hour passes in violent and wordy disputation among them as they load up their horses. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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