be awed
Example Sentences
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It’s hard not to be awed and a little afraid of these machines, and our fiction reflects those fears.
From Slate • Oct. 28, 2023
Looking across the Serengeti at herds of honking wildebeest, most of us would be awed by the exuberance of these migrating masses, resplendent in their magnitude.
From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2023
“I like to be awed, as at the pyramids in Egypt,” she said in a 1997 interview with The East Hampton Star.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023
You cannot help but be awed by the scale of Antarctica, the great white continent.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2021
Astonishingly, the Reverend continued to be awed as the spirit raps in this intimate circle answered simple questions about the family correctly.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
