awestruck

Example Sentences

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“Are you sure she’s your ma?” one of her teenage son’s awestruck friends asks while gazing up at her.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2026

AFP visited the river port of Outeiro in Belem on Brazil's north coast, surrounded by small communities of boat-dwelling fisherfolk awestruck by the enormity of the floating hotels.

From Barron's • Nov. 9, 2025

"You think you know these people," Winkleman reflected, "and then you watch them play this game, and I was awestruck by the way they played it - with empathy, with wit and with real smarts."

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025

First-time visitors have been awestruck by pristine fjords and magnificent glaciers, gushing over stunning, untouched landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2025

Jennifer watched, awestruck, at Sosie’s grace and power and utter lack of self-consciousness.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray