overawes
- present tense form of overawe (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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In the same way, these young people live in the light of the history of cinema, of the great age of Hollywood and the classic European cinema that also overarches and overawes the moderns.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2014
"The building is a personal statement by Rudolph," he says, "and it overawes a student who is looking for a place to make his own personal statement."
From Time Magazine Archive
Still Brutus overawes him by his moral energy and elevation of character, and by the open-faced rectitude and purity of his principles.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton
It is the prompt enforcement of criminal law that gives it moral force and overawes the offender.
From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey
There is something in the pyramids which overawes our boasted civilization.
From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
