awe-struck,
- a variation of awestruck.
Example Sentences
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During the nearly seven-hour lunar flyby, astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen and Reid Weisman gave near-literary descriptions of lunar surface features and left scientists in Houston awe-struck.
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
With the metal in colliding knives, the foley work of sand beneath a boot and the glottal roaring of a sandworm, I am reduced to a slack, muttering, awe-struck child.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
To an awe-struck crowd, the two of them then do a rendition of “Chopsticks.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2024
Illuminated by the glow of pinks and purples behind her, Becky G looks out into the awe-struck audience at downtown’s the Novo and offers this advice: “Always trust the process.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
For a full minute the boy gazed silently as the others were doing, awe-struck and yet utterly fascinated.
From Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)
