be awed

Example Sentences

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When Trump first met Barack Obama after winning the 2016 election, he appeared to be awed by the office he was inheriting.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2025

It’s hard not to be awed and a little afraid of these machines, and our fiction reflects those fears.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2023

Looking across the Serengeti at herds of honking wildebeest, most of us would be awed by the exuberance of these migrating masses, resplendent in their magnitude.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2023

“I like to be awed, as at the pyramids in Egypt,” she said in a 1997 interview with The East Hampton Star.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023

For some it is a form of vanity: “Learn from me and be awed because I am so wise.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman