awe-struck

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During the nearly seven-hour lunar flyby, astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen and Reid Weisman gave near-literary descriptions of lunar surface features and left scientists in Houston awe-struck.

From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026

With the metal in colliding knives, the foley work of sand beneath a boot and the glottal roaring of a sandworm, I am reduced to a slack, muttering, awe-struck child.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2025

It was the presence of Combs, born a year after that Grammy performance, regarding Chapman with an awe-struck reverence.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2024

In those early days, Raban is almost goofy for Seattle, and that wide-eyed, awe-struck wonder looks good on him.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2023

"Not to-day, we won't," he said, and then, while they listened in awe-struck silence, he told them all there was to tell and what he intended doing.

From The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo by Stoddard, William O.