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inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight
the awesome complexity of the universe
New York is an amazing city
this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath
Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent
How To Use awe-inspiring In A Sentence
- Yet ineptitude at the back could not entirely explain away this truly awe-inspiring spectacle.
- But the evidence they uncover about the presence of a bigfoot is even more awe-inspiring. The Sun
- It was a gorgeous, awe-inspiring piece of modern machinery - almost Zen-like in its shining simplicity and austere precision.
- This restaurant reportedly has top-notch seafood, slick service and awe-inspiring decor.
- The devil, realising that he had been fooled, disappeared in an awe-inspiring cloud of smoke and sulphur fumes; but the bridge remained, and its name to this day recalls the discomfiture of his evil plans. Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway.
- The volcanic stone is subject to weathering, and intensive conservation efforts are needed to help preserve Rapa Nui's stone legacy in its present, awe-inspiring state.
- No one had failed to see the awe-inspiring sight: it was so bright that it outshone the sun and turned the night into a veritable midnight afternoon.
- The dancers, arrayed in awe-inspiring costumes and hideous masks, enact weird rituals before the village shrine.
- Through a clever process of hunching herself over and putting on a croaky voice she has actually managed to increase her age by an awe-inspiring 7 million years.
- And getting a reporter to print it without immediately following it with something supercilious is an even more awe-inspiring talent.