awed

Example Sentences

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The uprising awed the world and became a harbinger of change in authoritarian regimes.

From Seattle Times

And I have nothing but awed respect for the reporters covering the Ukraine war, including Brent Renaud, the American journalist and filmmaker killed on Sunday at a checkpoint outside Kyiv.

From Washington Post

Here, atop a mountain nearly a quarter-millennium later, awed by the splendor and immensity of the White Continent, I realized just how grateful I was to have caught the ship’s second act.

From Washington Post

That kind of narrative power, the ability to transport a young girl from boring suburbia to 19th-century India, left me awed.

From New York Times

At the group’s convention in Aspen, Colorado, he saw thousands of other skiers who looked like him, and the other attendees were awed by the sight of Horton in his national ski team uniform.

From Seattle Times