awestruck

Example Sentences

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An awestruck Pakistan quick bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi pronounced Brook's performance: "The best innings of his life. A captain's innings."

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

“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

His work is a moving and complex love letter to Mexico, mesmerizing anyone who has ever been awestruck by the country.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

"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

After inspecting the unfinished Crocker Cracker, Hanson was escorted across the street to the Rad Lab for the obligatory demonstration of the lavender beam and was sent home suitably awestruck.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik