Example Sentences

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The savvy of a quarterback who turned 18 in May has awed much older teammates.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023

From the moment she burst onto the international scene in 2015, Davidsen has awed critics and audiences alike with her enormous voice and effortless high notes.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2023

Her art has awed critics and found buyers since she began showing it, in the early nineteen-sixties, and her paintings now bring between three and five million on the primary market.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2019

The team is unlikely to grab one of the two Olympic berths at the tournament, particularly after an opening loss to Canada, but has awed everyone with its resilience nonetheless.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2012

Some must have fled chuckling and cursing almost sheepishly, like infants the magnitude of whose mischief has surpassed their intention, and has awed and frightened them, at last.

From The Planet Strappers by Gallun, Raymond Z.