overawe

Example Sentences

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Many had wondered whether the occasion would overawe Cameron, but she cut a relaxed figure as 'Don't worry about a thing' rang out during her ring walk.

From BBC • May 20, 2023

Since conversion was thought to excuse conquest, these devotional artworks had to overawe their viewers.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022

The West is more immediate and can still overawe the spectator with substantial remnants of its old annihilating grandeur.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2017

Hoping to overawe the people of the land, Lewis would let out a blast of his air rifle, a relatively new piece of technology the Native Americans had never seen.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

Jonathan’s impetuosity, and the manifest singleness of his purpose, seemed to overawe those in front of him; instinctively they cowered, aside and let him pass.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker