Noun : the dawning of the space age.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : Dawn broke over the valley. ,the dawn of civilization.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : The day dawned with a cloudless sky. ,The idea dawned on him.    From Dictionary.com. 

“He sent us away,” Montyr said in dawning understanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six] Reference

He stood gazing at it a good while, a new expression dawning in his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

He stood gazing at it a good while – a new expression dawning in his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

The day of the fat lady was long in dawning, but at last her freedom and her fashionableness have arrived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stylish Stouts] Reference

She turned her head slightly, a curious expression dawning on her beautiful face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bloody Crown of Conan]

The Burtons went into inexpensive lodgings, and waited for the brighter days which were slow in dawning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference

I noticed an expression dawning on Cleopatra's face, as I thus bereft her of a possible Antony (with an "H").    From Wordnik.com.  [It Happened in Egypt] Reference

Stroszek, is this name-calling the dawning of the Obamacult's understanding of civility and not marginalizing anybody in a democracy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report: Obama Meets Unconditionally With George Will, Bill Kristol, David Brooks] Reference

My dawning is begun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Southern Zion's Songster; Hymns Designed for Sabbath Schools, Prayer, and Social Meetings, and the Camps. Compiled by the Editor of the North Carolina Christian Advocate] Reference

Obama's town 'It feels like a new era kind of dawning'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

"Now I think it's kind of dawning on her what happened, and it made her a little rattled.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pasadena Star-News Most Viewed] Reference

And I think it's kind of dawning on everyone that the rescue party isn't coming to Michigan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy Now!] Reference

"It feels like a new era kind of dawning," said Peter Morris, a 23-year-old theology student.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

Time to face the dawning gray of another lonely day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luciana Souza: Revising Pop by Way of Bossa Nova] Reference

Across Asia, the age of the "people's car" is dawning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's Mini Invasion] Reference

We dance the night's dawning, on longships and rowboats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Temple and the Fortress] Reference

It was local anesthesia; she was awake, dawning into pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Guggenheim Visits an Operation] Reference

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives on holiday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billie Joe Armstrong, From Green Day To Broadway] Reference

Tiger Woods is the hero of the brown era dawning in America.    From Wordnik.com.  [See the Brown in Us] Reference

"There's a dawning realization of that reality on all sides.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Lost Turkey?] Reference

It's finally dawning on scientists that there's a problem here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Puzzle of Hidden Ability] Reference

This fact is just now dawning on the model -- look at her face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 3 Recap: Everybody Hates Gretchen] Reference

The consequences of Germany's weakness are only just dawning on Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rot At Europe's Core] Reference

Fitfully, it is dawning on West Europeans that they live in a dangerous world.    From Wordnik.com.  [What We Owe Them] Reference

There is a hint in the pages of Monocle that this realization is dawning on them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Todd Reisz and Rory Hyde: Rank My City: The Singles Charts of the City-Building Business] Reference

The dawning of this consciousness, once complete, will drive great reforms yet to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [A House Of Cards] Reference

Clearly, though, new rules are needed for the dawning era of turbo-charged philanthropy.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Callahan: The Problem With Billionaire Philanthropists] Reference

I sensed about them a dawning dissatisfaction, as if they had come to a sudden realisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stream and The Torrent] Reference

Some experts already predict that the day of the PC will end with the dawning of the network.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now For Some Hotjava] Reference

As role models go, an aspiring journalist with a dawning social conscience beats Barbie any day.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sunshiney 'American Girl'] Reference

The dawning, goose-fleshy awareness that we were — clichés groan to life — watching history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sports: The Grandest Slam] Reference

That conclusion was clearly dawning on the other Robert in pretty much watches-synced simultaneity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The several stages of grief] Reference

I think it's dawning on American and Delta and United that they simply don't have the cost structure to operate everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Bury The Airlines] Reference

In the dawning age of asymmetrical warfare, this leads to an interesting — and, for Washington, uncomfortable — conclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Way to Run a War] Reference

The morning after the bombing of Hiroshima, Hanson Baldwin of The New York Times summed up the general sense of a new era dawning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arms Control: The End Of The Beginning?] Reference

In the current scheme of things, the fashion power centers of the West are still in vogue, but a new day is dawning all over the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watching the Models Go By] Reference