awe

[ɔː]

Definition:
1. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
2. A profound emotion inspired by a deity.
3. Inspire awe in.

Use 'awe' in a sentence:

1. She filled me with a sense of awe.
2. The profound silence awed everyone.
3. I observe it with awe.
4. Thirteen, as we well know, is regarded with great awe and fear.
5. The crowd listened in awed silence.
6. Caroline hardly dared talk in Alex's presence, she was so in awe of him.
7. Brought before the evidence of his crimes, he was awe-struck and could say nothing in his defence.
8. I admired my father, and his work filled me with awe and curiosity.
9. The girl's voice was sweet but shaky, her awed round eyes made her look about sixteen.
10. They were like children playing. Dad and I were both in complete awe.
11. The students are a little in awe of their professor.
12. The money was mysterious, and we were in awe of it.
13. ‘ It's magnificent, ’ she whispered in awe.
14. The mountains in beauty dressed stand awed by that magical sight,' of the wedding of heaven and earth in a waterfall's headlong flight.
15. I'm also slightly in awe of them.
16. These assemblages, walls, even entire environments create a mysterious, almost awe-inspiring atmosphere.
17. And yet I also felt a strange awe of him;
18. I was totally in awe, seeing some of their creations.
19. was a building which had that shock and awe effect.
20. He had a feeling of awe as he was taken before the judge.
21. I am still awed by David's courage.
22. But it was a painful kind of awe.
23. While Diana was in awe of her grandfather, she adored her grandmother.
24. After I explained to Juan that yes, we did have a moon and yes, it was very similar to his, I felt a sort of awe at the possibilities that existed in his world.
25. We watched in awed silence.
26. Don't base your awe of them on their aphorisms.
27. Her first view of the Great Wall filled her with awe.
28. There's awe in your face!
29. The two brothers stood over the dead rat and spoke in tones of awed admiration.
30. What we might call today shock and awe.
31. He was in awe of her; she held him spellbound.
32. Instead of feeling happiness and awe from staring at an anthill and watching the mysteries of life unfold, you decided to forget those small pleasures.
33. My brothers and I stared in awe as the knowledgeable old OBO put Jacky through his circus tricks.
34. He speaks of her with awe.
35. We feel awe when we stand near vast mountains.
36. She gazed in awe at the great stones.
37. "I cannot strike," he said with awe, "there is something stays my hand."
38. Its scientific achievements also provoke awe.
39. In awe of his mother and in love with his father, the adolescent Max chose to stay with Mac.
40. Are you sighing in awe?
41. At home the agency is viewed with awe and dread.
42. 'It's magnificent,' she whispered in awe.
43. He felt wonder mingled with awe at the grand canyon.
44. Thatwas a day of awe and wonder.
45. I found it hard not to regard them with awe.
46. Her paintings have awed and amazed the public for half a century.
47. As for the old woman-I stood in awe.
48. The audience was awed into silence by her stunning performance.
49. She seemed awed by the presence of so many famous people.
50. The building was awe-inspiring in size and design.
51. Being so near the august person of the Empress, he was overcome with awe.
52. The higher we climbed, the more awe-inspiring the scenery became.
53. They looked at him with a mixture of horror, envy, and awe.
54. His fellow officers regarded him with awe as some sort of genius.