awed
Example Sentences
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"You've got to be awed by it all, which I never cease to be."
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Some might find it humanizing—proof that below the bloviating gestalt, the president can become awed by existential futility.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
But it was a chance to capture the imaginations of new generations of future space explorers, while also calling back to the one-giant-step-for-mankind sense of awed enormity that characterized the 20th-century Space Race.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
China has long awed visitors with wonders such as the Great Wall and the terracotta warriors buried in an ancient tomb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
Before awed spectators, the army fought pretend battles, with guns, tanks, communication battalions, motorcyclists, and cavalry.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
