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
To read Tate was to be awed by a gift that verged on the extraterrestrial.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
For some it is a form of vanity: “Learn from me and be awed because I am so wise.”
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
