awestruck

Example Sentences

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He also shared how he was awestruck by Epstein and his extravagant life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 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

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

Sometimes my aunts and uncles would look at me and gently slap their cheeks, awestruck by the fact that I looked just like her.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi