Sentence examples for dawn on him from inspiring English sources

The distinction is not a meaningful one, and it cannot just have begun to dawn on him, since he has already told us that he had been boycotting his father's public literary events since 1976.

I saw some kind of understanding dawn on him.

Chris lets this Pyrrhic victory dawn on him.

It was beginning to dawn on him: he was the super-G world champion.

It began to dawn on him that perhaps he had been "saved" for a special pupose.

Henry doesn't know he's interrupting, but it would never dawn on him to ask.

While shaving one morning it dawned on him that people would break his heart.

Then it dawned on him.

Finally it dawns on him.

Then, he said, it dawned on him.

The designation of his new casting dawns on him slowly.