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

He received a similar awestruck reception last week, when he arrived at West Coast Customs to inspect a 1977 Excalibur roadster he had taken in for restoration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 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

The point about Chrissie—and this applied to a lot of the veterans—was that for all her slightly patronising manner towards us when we’d first arrived, she was awestruck about our being from Hailsham.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro