awe-inspiring
Example Sentences
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On March 2, 2026, after bragging about the awe-inspiring lethality of U.S.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2026
Grantham describes it as “a fast-moving and awe-inspiring invention that seems highly consequential—even worldchanging—to almost everybody, myself included.”
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
The capital is awe-inspiring thanks to Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s 1791 master plan, perfected by the 1901-02 McMillan Plan creating the National Mall and monumental core as we know them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
"It is awe-inspiring, majestic, it has the X-factor," he says.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
Major de Coverley was a splendid, awe-inspiring, grave old man with a massive leonine head and an angry shock of wild white hair that raged like a blizzard around his stem, patriarchal face.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
