awe

Dave Sexton said: "I'm in awe of this bird!"

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

“I’m just in awe watching her rebound,” teammate Allisha Gray said after Reese’s record-setting performance in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

“Feelings of awe connect people to the larger things they are part of, the natural world, the universe, all living things,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

"That was all part of the shock and awe of it all for Chloe," David said.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

He could well imagine their expressions of awe and their demands that he tell the story again.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

The keyboard introduction to What Was I Made For?, taken from the recent soundtrack to the Barbie movie, draws gasps and "awes" from around the field.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023

The pace of building in South Korea awes, but there are gripes that the quality of public exhibitions, and professional standards, varies widely.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

While Churchill awes spectators with its size and scope, on par with the world’s monumental stadiums, Keeneland, opened in 1936, guards its idyllic appeal.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2021

She keeps on killing—at cocktail parties and dive bars, even at a Washington Square rally, where she awes Jane Jacobs with a speech about how women “accessorize” the world, as a multiethnic crowd cheers.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 11, 2018

And godless though I am, the fact of being human, the fact of possessing the gift of study, and thus being remarkable among all the matter floating through the cosmos, still awes me.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The total eclipse plunged a vast swathe of Spain from broad daylight into darkness Wednesday, drawing awed gasps and applause from spectators gathered in parks and cities across the country.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

"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

Mozart Maxon, then a consultant for India’s National Disaster Management Authority, was awed when he saw the lake for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Some of my bunkmates offered awed congratulations while Basil made a special point of coming forward to shake my hand.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

He has a unique capacity for memorizing data that he frequently recites, awing listeners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

Inside the Sistine Chapel, where in the past I have been shoved and elbowed by the crowds, about 30 spectators were awing over Perugino’s frescoes and craning to see Michelangelo’s burly musclemen on the ceiling.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021

Doing the things only she can do, awing her peers while trying to silence her inner critic in the process.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2021

The idea is to terrify the enemy: the effect will be to petrify ourselves, shocking and awing us into understanding the full implications of no deal.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2019

He had no capacity, whatever, for either awing or conciliating those with whom he came in contact.

From With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty