overawe

Many had wondered whether the occasion would overawe Cameron, but she cut a relaxed figure as 'Don't worry about a thing' rang out during her ring walk.

From BBC ● May 20, 2023

Since conversion was thought to excuse conquest, these devotional artworks had to overawe their viewers.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

The West is more immediate and can still overawe the spectator with substantial remnants of its old annihilating grandeur.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2017

Hoping to overawe the people of the land, Lewis would let out a blast of his air rifle, a relatively new piece of technology the Native Americans had never seen.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

Jonathan’s impetuosity, and the manifest singleness of his purpose, seemed to overawe those in front of him; instinctively they cowered, aside and let him pass.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

In the same way, these young people live in the light of the history of cinema, of the great age of Hollywood and the classic European cinema that also overarches and overawes the moderns.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2014

"The building is a personal statement by Rudolph," he says, "and it overawes a student who is looking for a place to make his own personal statement."

From Time Magazine Archive

In truth, in perfect beauty there is always that which overawes.'

From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by William Ware

Proud thoughts that Image overawes, Before it humbly let us pause, And ask of Nature, from what cause,       And by what rules She trained her Burns to win applause       That shames the Schools.

From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by John Campbell Shairp

She flatters the vain, and overawes the weak, and gets by sheer impudence what other writers cannot....

From Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The German second seed could meet Djokovic in the semi-finals but has regularly looked overawed when they step on court at the Slams.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

Chelsea, winners of the past six WSL seasons and the current holders of all three domestic titles, looked like a team in headlights, completed overawed by City.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

She was not overawed by this occasion, carrying the weight of the British number one tag at Wimbledon amid an electric atmosphere, with the crowd eager to celebrate her every success.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025

Meikle did not look overawed against his fellow Englishman and levelled, but Littler took the third set and exploded into life in the fourth.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2024

Eleanor was trying really hard not to be overawed by Park's driving skills, but every time he changed lanes or checked the rearview mirror, she caught herself swooning.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

For some young players, the attention might be overawing.

From BBC ● May 30, 2025

The first album I'd ever bought was Ziggy Stardust and I owned all his others, so it was overawing, but he was really generous as a performer.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2013

Nowhere among these republics have great military establishments ever been maintained for the purpose of overawing or subjugating other nations.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Europe through which his couple move is one of soft colors, handsome but not overawing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Master was gentle, yet could be severe; had an overawing presence, yet was not violent; was deferential, yet easy.

From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson