awed
Example Sentences
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"You've got to be awed by it all, which I never cease to be."
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
It’s only humans who have attached words like “wild” and “unexplored” to regions where they feel uncertain, afraid, and even awed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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
But it was a chance to capture the imaginations of new generations of future space explorers, while also calling back to the one-giant-step-for-mankind sense of awed enormity that characterized the 20th-century Space Race.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
Now our immediate hope was that his chemical colleagues would be more than ever awed by his intellect and not probe the details of his model.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
