Example Sentences

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For some young players, the attention might be overawing.

From BBC • May 30, 2025

The first album I'd ever bought was Ziggy Stardust and I owned all his others, so it was overawing, but he was really generous as a performer.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2013

The Europe through which his couple move is one of soft colors, handsome but not overawing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nowhere among these republics have great military establishments ever been maintained for the purpose of overawing or subjugating other nations.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was then sent to clean up the three toughest districts in town, which he did with the utmost rigor in less than four days, completely overawing, single-handed, their turbulent gangs.

From The Crow's Nest by Day, Clarence