awestruck
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of awestruck
First recorded in 1625–35
Example Sentences
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An awestruck Pakistan quick bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi pronounced Brook's performance: "The best innings of his life. A captain's innings."
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
“Are you sure she’s your ma?” one of her teenage son’s awestruck friends asks while gazing up at her.
From Salon • Feb. 4, 2026
His work is a moving and complex love letter to Mexico, mesmerizing anyone who has ever been awestruck by the country.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
"You think you know these people," Winkleman reflected, "and then you watch them play this game, and I was awestruck by the way they played it - with empathy, with wit and with real smarts."
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025
By this time Gum Baby had leaped from John Henry—who stood awestruck by what he had just learned—to High John, and now she dropped to where Miss Sarah and Miss Rose sat.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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