overawe

How to use overawe in a sentence

Clubs were formed to discuss the great questions of the day, to mold public opinion, and to overawe the Assembly.

Government apprehended an attempt to overawe parliament and stationed soldiers in the neighbourhood of Westminster Hall.

Omsk is the center of that military organization of Western Siberia which is intended to overawe the Kirghiz population.

To hasten the crisis a regiment supported by a naval force was sent to overawe the rebellious town.

An eye he had––age-wise ways and a glance to overawe my youth––but what was he, after all, in such a case as this?

In the eye of the man––the gesture––the risen voice––appeared some high authority to overawe us.

It is a crime to be above the vulgar, and yet not overawe the vulgar.

There is no exigency which should be allowed to overawe Congress in the performance of its constitutional duties.

The officers had been called in to overawe the college lads in case they became too demonstrative.

It crowned this hill, and was garrisoned by the tenth legion to overawe the turbulent tribes swarming on the plains below.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985