awestruck

Example Sentences

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“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

At night, far from shore, more stars flickered than he’d ever noticed, and he was awestruck by the way phosphorescent creatures set the waves aglow.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 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

She trapped herself, she marched into the labyrinth of her own construction, and was too young, too awestruck, too keen to please, to insist on making her own way back.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan