Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "dawn raid".
Eighteen summers ago a troop of white helms from Morning Star had killed his brother in a dawn raid upon his father's homestead in Clan Otler.
Halfway through the journey, a strong force of mounted bandits had staged a dawn raid on the convoy, carrying off the White Lady and her two women as part of their plunder.
She knew why, of course: he wanted to know why hisentire department was engaged on a dawn raid he knewnothing about.
Still, a dawn raid rousted him and his wife from bed in their underwear, and six Secret Service agents, accompanied by a bemused Austin cop and a corporate security agent from Bellcore, made a rich haul.
But that magic cannot harm the host of Stronghand, and Nokvi's strength will not avail him in the confusion brought on him by a dawn raid.
Once when we were surrounded after a dawn raid on a village, and the second time when I was part of a guard unit for a spices caravan.