Thesaurus / awe-inspiring

awe-inspiring

How to use awe-inspiring in a sentence

She played very well, keeping excellent waltz time and infusing an expression into the strains which was indeed inspiring.

She may be as chaste as unsunned snow, she is certainly as cold: but for warm, inspiring virtue!

Struck with surprise, the dead silence of profound awe, for an instant stilled the whole assembly.

It was very unfortunate that the whole establishment stood in unaffected awe of the redoubted Mr Bellamy.

Awe stole upon him; he felt himself included in the great ideal of this older day.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

She is still inspiring the unfinished work of creation, and her delight is with the children of men.

It is true that I was impressed with him in a way, because the man was rather—er, inspiring, and I entertained hopes.

The bishop answered, that the awe of seeing before him so great and wise a prince made him afraid to trust himself.

Ye told me that he only kepit twa sairvents: a cook, hoosekeper, who lived awe', an' a man—a foreigner?

DOPESAX ROHMER

It would be hard to imagine anything more inspiring than the vistas which opened to us as we sped along.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985