How To Use Awed In A Sentence

The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
The beast was as huge as an aurochs, its glossy midnight mane shining in the sunlight as it pawed the ground restlessly with one forehoof.
A mouse has gnawed its way through the telephone wire.
All democratic associations or groups were outlawed. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
Although the strategy was flawed by its excessive voluntarism, it did force the party to modernize itself.

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The assembled opposition members, journalists and tourism industry heavies were slack-jawed.
Fancy an heir that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hair-lipped, wapper-jawed, carrot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, -- my case was yet worse. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
Fear gnawed at her soul.
A rat had gnawed a hole in the box.
Sure enough, this Heller language has served to protect a remarkable variety of federal gun restrictions challenged since Heller, including bans on gun possession by felons, domestic violence misdemeanants, and persons under restraining orders, bans on sawed-off shotguns and machine guns, laws restricting guns in school zones, post offices, and other public property, and others. Dennis A. Henigan: The Gun Issue Is Back in the Supreme Court: What Does It Mean?
His escape meant that he had to be figuratively executed, with the result that the people, ideas, and culture associated with him were outlawed and destroyed in his stead.
Now, I'm not saying that wow is the devil or anything knee-jerkingly reactionist like that (although I * do* have some serious issues with some elements of it: the grind, only having one somewhat flawed model of guild leadership, etc, etc). Becoming Gamer; or "My last ever log out."
On Seventh Avenue, slack-jawed visitors scrambled for digital cameras, and taxicabs actually slowed down for something other than a fare.
A big-jawed and relatively small-brained hominid known as Paranthropus consumed mainly nuts and other hard foods, causing it to die out as these resources became scarce in African habitats.
The kids stand frozen and slack-jawed, mesmerized by the adults capering around in rented tutus.
These tests were so seriously flawed as to render the results meaningless.
The practice is quasi fraudulent and ought to be outlawed. Times, Sunday Times
I looked at him dourly and gnawed on my nail nervously.
Benedettini clawed the ball out with his right hand, but a linesman raised his flag to indicate a goal.
He wanted us to gaze up at his Sistine ceiling and be awed by the power of divinity. Times, Sunday Times
The second year went up in the flames of a deeply flawed health-care reform.
In her decision, Judge Coral Shaw found that the employer's investigation was flawed and the report was invalid and should be set aside.
Seingô shrieked in rage, and clawed out at him with spiny, thorny arms.
Daunting as it nonetheless was, I was quite wrong to be so awed.
Actually, the prevailing wisdom that iambic pentameter is somehow ideal for relating the rhythms of English speech seems deeply flawed to me. Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The sun at noon thawed the snow on the roof.
Gala clawed back three points almost immediately with the only penalty goal of the match thanks to stand-off Andy McLean.
The zombies clawed at the motorcade for a while, but you know how it is when you're playing to an empty hall - your performance is bound to lack conviction. Courageous park police save Lincoln Memorial from zombies
There has been no such command performance since his hurried but deeply flawed return from serious injury. Times, Sunday Times
Not to mention the thawed, spoilt food in the freezer. The Sun
Billy slapped his knee and guffawed, and he began choking on his pretzel he had shoveled into his mouth. Kari Gremore: An All-American Tea Party
Do you think we will be awed by the number of nubile, dim-witted, improbably large-breasted young ladies your middle-aged "narrator" sleeps with in the throes of his midlife crisis, after leaving his wrinkled shrew of a wife? Archive 2009-09-01
The company started developing a type of malicious software known as adware that hackers install on PCs, where they served up pop-up ads for travel services, pornography, discounted drugs and other products, including its flawed antivirus software. IOL: News
This bandy-legged, sawed-off little rat racer is awfully interesting in its own right. Fanboys in Flight: Subaru Roars In on a Wing
The nave but essentially well-meaning Peter's interaction with his flawed clients formed the centre of the piece and much of the comedy sprung from the dynamic duologues.
He comes in and faces Stan, who has a sawed-off shot gun in his hand.
That does not mean that the same principle applies to an uncatalogued and flawed reproduction. Times, Sunday Times
As for the charge of "harlotry," it is equally flawed. La Malinche - harlot or heroine?
Is he afraid we will expose the huge holes in these fatally flawed proposals?
It has the grandeur of a true epic, a thrilling, if flawed hero, momentous political struggles, bravery, love and death.
With bonfires outlawed in urban areas, gardeners must cart their refuse to a dump.
cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm
Or they abandoned ship altogether and slogged to shore, hoping to regain their vessels when the ice thawed.
While such a sophisticated politician was well aware of the pitfalls involved in fiercely defending his policies and sticking unswervingly to his principles, with hindsight this decision can be seen as fatally flawed.
How does she manage to run so fast at her age?" he asked in awed tones.
As someone who's always found Bob Dylan amusing and kind of absurd, I guffawed (at 3 a.m.; scared the opossums) at Idle's startling transformation into ol 'Uncle Bobby, strummin' and harpin 'and bleatin' nearly incomprehensibly about Brian's theme of "Individuals. Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah: Monty Python Strikes Again!
Slavery was not officially outlawed in Australia until 1859.
I am as always slightly awed by the sheer tragedy and futility of it all.
Her voice was its usual unawed self, as if Jumping space horses was something she did every week. Warhorse
He sees an increasing number of Saudis who are whipsawed between a new materialism and traditional values.
He certainly didn't look overawed as he stepped on to the first tee and smacked his drive a mile down the fairway. US Open 2011: Rory McIlroy into final round with eight-shot lead
They were awed into silence by the sternness of her voice.
Many skis were just a whipsawed piece of lumber four to six inches in width with an upturned tip, but they worked well enough to transport the skier to where he wanted to go.
We may have no big names of stars on our team but they are all triers to the last and will not be overawed by the reputation of the Dubs.
Such profuse adulation of the rich exists side-by-side with occasional media trashing of individuals as overly piggish or personally flawed.
He is the last man to concede that it is flawed or failing as a concept. Times, Sunday Times
(To do this, you have to break the copy-protection scheme -- an act that is specifically outlawed by the anticonsumer Digital Millennium Copyright Act.) Info With A Ball And Chain
One preternaturally long bony hand, a length of severed rope dangling from the wrist, clutched with clawed fingers at a sword gash in chain mail stained with dried blood. Conan The Invincible
month by month, the betrayal gnawed at his heart
Our sport is rife with that same insidious elitism that has decayed the core of other field sports, which now face the very real prospect of being outlawed.
They claim that evidence used to dismiss concerns about side-effects is flawed. Times, Sunday Times
The containing group of jawed vertebrates and jawless fishes is vertebrata. A New Book
Apart from being a brilliant if flawed politician, he was up against a divided and unpopular Opposition. The Sun
The politician clawed his rival
The word 'coward' is a strong one, but the reality is that because we have such wildly different perspectives on why racial disparities exist, and because they continue to exist long after explicit racism has been outlawed, discussion of racial issues requires a high degree of tolerance for conflict, both intellectual and emotional. Guest Post:: It Takes a Nation of Cowards to Prove Eric Holder Right
Frozen in space, they clawed at the air. Man of Honour
A rat had gnawed a hole in the box.
They were wrapped in two-ply airtight plastic bags and stored at - 20 degrees C. Before testing, each specimen was thawed for 24 hours at room temperature.
Dat can'date pawed de groun 'lak a hoss an' tried to git outen de winder. The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
The red-clawed seagulls circled for a long time over the shell of the upturned ship.
Their favorite cat clawed a hole in my stocking.
The money has been used to build high-tech vessels that are routinely breaching quotas and using outlawed fishing practices. Times, Sunday Times
Turkey thawed in the refrigerator can be refrozen without cooking, although there may be some loss of quality.
Unlike all other jawed vertebrates, placoderms never had teeth, and did not descend from toothed ancestors.
It is the first time that membership of a far-right group has been outlawed. Times, Sunday Times
What's even more revealing is how the elite has come to see itself as ethically flawed.
We like it with fruit on it, such as thawed frozen berries. VEGAN SCOTTISH SHERRY TRIFLE; VEGAN SPONGE CAKE AND POURED CUSTARD
WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Happening now, Barack Obama sharpening his criticism of Hillary Clinton, what he calls her flawed judgment. CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2007
He sawed at the loaf with a blunt knife.
But i got the money in to my bank account which i have withdrawed after 3rd of this month! Digital Point Forums
Without progressive leadership, would segregation have been outlawed?
It's impossible not to be awed by the grandeur of temples and throne rooms of a country still in love with its benevolent monarchy.
Having eaten there but once - and I was a guest so didn't have to pay, either - I was almost overawed by its excellence.
Whether or not these methods were flawed matters not; what is important is that ideal womanhood was, in part, physical.
Well, then, I fell a thinkin ', and then I sairched my pockets, and arter a piece found two green cartridges of number three, as Archer gave me in the Spring, so I drawed out the small shot, and inned with these, and put fresh caps on to be sarten. Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago
As the cripple sat looking over the solemn, moaning ocean, awed by its brooding gloom, did he catch in the silvery starlight a second glimpse of the rose-colored veils, and snowy vittae, and purple - edged robes of the Parcae, spinning and singing as they followed the ship across the sobbing sea? St. Elmo
Now he breaks his silence about the flawed evidence.
Benson clawed his way back into the lead.
His Protestant heirs continue to view the New Testament as a seriously flawed historical document.
The interior is a delight, a beamed, strawed, trestle-tabled, dimly lit farmhouse attended to by waiters in sashed smocks.
And many studies are flawed by the tendency of researchers to look for information that confirms their own beliefs.
Just when hunting pink is to be outlawed, cagoule red is being given the green light today, with armies of walkers now allowed to wander across ‘private’ property
The cars jerked and yawed so much that we were constantly bumping our heads or smashing our elbows.
The direction of the grain, as well as the amount of figuring in the wood, can affect the way it is sanded and sawed.
I would point to Francis Fukuyama's insightful "The End of History", which was only been flawed by assuming that the US was a real democracy --- and not a very subtle, guileful ruling-elite 'corporate financial Empire' disguising itself behind the facade of this two-party 'Vichy' sham of democracy. Coming Soon-- Riots in America?
The Lawers Burn issues from the lochan and legend has it that an outlawed Macgregor once hid in a cave behind a waterfall of the burn.
This debate about a device to “save” newspapers is fundamentally flawed because it assumes that the newspaper industry will remain cohesive with a single revenue and distribution model, as it did until about 5 years ago. Why the Kindle HD Can’t Save Newspapers
The phenomenon is easily seen by eye and apparently cannot be ascribed to statistical artefacts, selection procedures or flawed reduction techniques.
He lunged at the man and his sword rammed itself between the man's ribs, grated, then a French hand gripped Sharpe's blade, blood showed at his fingers, but the man held on, tugged, and another man clawed at Sharpe's face. Sharpe's Siege
Its huge feet and long legs kept up with her easily, its clawed hands were stretched out ready to grab her, scratching against the walls, making a spine shilling noise.
While I've praised the improvements that Assembly and Senate committees made last week, the bill is still fundamentally flawed in several ways.
I gnawed at my lip again; who, just who though, had wielded the knife?
I hemmed and hawed, but the artwork was so charming — and so obviously professional — that I decided to snatch it up (at a discount, no less). 2009 July : Scrubbles.net
The dino range has expanded beyond noisy and noisome T Rex and those kangaroo-bouncy raptors to include the mean-clawed, fast-flying pteronadon and big, big spinosaurus.
And it's always entertaining to be awed by the men's breakdancing virtuosity. Times, Sunday Times
The inquiry team seemed awed by this blast from the past. Times, Sunday Times
The yearlong separation from family has gnawed at the conscience of troops who've served there since the 1950s.
The central character is deeply flawed and yet he is also extremely likeable. Times, Sunday Times
The fact that these ancones have not yet been sawed off, is an indicator of the unfinished state of the temple.
Reading the stories of political dissidents, it is impossible not to be awed by their courage and their inner strength. Times, Sunday Times
It is 2014 and the Botox butchers have finally been outlawed - not before leaving their indelible mark on the phizogs of every Scot desperate enough to believe the hype.
The Sheriff guffawed loudly at his own joke, though no one else joined in.
Let's say they found an Illinois matchbook, a pair of sawed-apart handcuffs, some direct proof her son had been to see her. THE BINGO PALACE
I once witnessed a 7 pt being sawed from a barbed wire fence when I was about 8. Video Report: Montana Ranchers Untangle Locked Bucks
For that, the hometown boy-turned-space traveler was treated to parades and accolades from an awed San Diego populace.
Her history is what Rove was talking about when he called her fatally flawed. Karl Rove Denies He's Attacking Hillary To Help Her
If large body lengths are primitive for jawed fishes, which is also true for many placoderms, then a marked reduction in body size may have occurred with the origin of ray-finned fishes.
A mouse has gnawed its way through the telephone wire.
His face was badly clawed by his little brother.
I think she would put the frozen fillings unthawed in freshly made crust and bake a bit longer. Peaches and Cream Pie
The authors offer some propositions which I take to be logically flawed.
It means they could escape having the money they are alleged to have claimed through false accounting clawed back. Times, Sunday Times
Tutu also criticized what he called the dangerously flawed intelligence used by the U.S. and Britain to justify military action in Iraq. CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2004
The fingers relaxed; the ice thawed. Times, Sunday Times
In the last few years, Professor Hayes has testified in various Senate hearings claiming the EPA is accepting flawed chemical industry-funded studies as evidence of atrazine's safety. Annie Spiegelman: Living Downstream: Steingraber Documentary Puts Moral Imperative on Banning Cancer-Causing Chemicals
Core developmental conflict, ego deficits, flawed character, and childhood traumata due to parental inadequacies postulated in dynamic etiological theories of drug abuse, also appear in theories regarding alcoholism. Clinical Work with Adolescents
He pulled from within his robe a beautiful piece of craftsmanship, a magnificent silver filigree forming beautiful designs on the neck clasp but flawed by only one thing.
What emerges is a portrait of a fine but flawed human. Times, Sunday Times
As consciousness first dawns, the infant begins to grasp — in the form of individual items of experience — jigsaw pieces in what might be an immense jigsawed picture of the meaning of his existence, and of life itself. Religion is like a jigsaw: it makes a picture out of puzzling chaos
First, it is suggested that successive attempts to expound a Marxian theory of nature have see-sawed between naturalistic and social constructionist positions.
People say he is a flawed character. Times, Sunday Times
YES. Denial of Holocaust has been outlawed by legislation.
a flawed diamond
We clawed our way up a high mountain ridge covered in fine, shifting talus and on the far side got caught in a thunderstorm.
For this reason, in my judgment, the decision of the Tribunal on this issue is flawed and cannot stand.
`Well done, Lovell," breathed Moira O'Hara in awed admiration. THE WHITE DOVE
Gradually the catawampus gained on her; she could hear the closer thudding of its hugely clawed feet, and the blasting bellow of its breath. Roc and a Hard Place
Lainie's spokes finally twitched through the side yard, but Dave hemmed and hawed about his smoking engine and how the garage guy would take him to work but he might need her to pick him up. Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature
In Medusa, thankfully, he is once again on thoroughly familiar territory, battling to pursue his own flawed version of truth through the lies, evasions and corruption that surround him.
In the former case the skull is said to be 'orthognathous' or straight-jawed; in the latter, it is called 'prognathous,' a term which has been rendered, with more force than elegance, by the Saxon equivalent, -- 'snouty.' On Some Fossil Remains of Man
The first federal gun legislation, the National Firearms Act of 1934, introduced controls on automatic weapons, sawed-off rifles and shotguns, and silencers, weapons popular with gangsters.
Although it may be common for structural geologists to assemble fault-slip data without regard for their ages, such an approach is flawed for multiphase deformation in which the principal stress axes change orientation.
Despite its hardness, it can be gnawed through, after it has fallen to the ground, by rodents such as the agouti.
He wanted us to gaze up at his Sistine ceiling and be awed by the power of divinity. Times, Sunday Times
Yes | No | Report from bighunter wrote 10 weeks 6 days ago or if you just want a gun joke, some police have there guns drawed at a robber there first reaction, boom, boom, then freeze Greatest movie line ever
It is a compelling account of a commonly flawed man who accepted the sacrifices of service and survived with honor.
It wouldn't be the first time the industry was made to pick up the tab and take the flak for flawed political policies.
He wanted us to gaze up at his Sistine ceiling and be awed by the power of divinity. Times, Sunday Times
How would you not know a member of your family?" asked the film's square-jawed producer, Dimitri Doganis , at a celebratory dinner at 350 Main. Scrounging for Swedish Fish at Sundance
Walter Pater "gambolling," in the moonlight, on the velvet lawn of his own secluded Oxford garden, like a satin-pawed Wombat! Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
His shot was clawed away by Friedel. Times, Sunday Times
Luckily, the broken pipe section was to a spigot that isn't used anymore anyway, so, in the end, we just hacksawed off the broken section, capped it, and called it good. Dirty Stuff
Like all of Roth's fiction, this novel is dazzling but flawed.
The girl looked at me, slack-jawed, and didn't even say ‘Cheers’, the typical London valediction.
Crowe is stoic and selfless - a perfectly flawed hero worth rooting for.
The script showed him as a vulnerable, troubled and flawed character. Times, Sunday Times
I was awed, but it was awe born of familiarity, not strangeness.
I was in a 90-degree-AOB left turn and 40 degrees nose low when the aircraft suddenly yawed to 75 degrees nose low.
Only yesterday, Friday morning Georgia local time, massive Russian troops withdrawed and pulled back to the early point before the conflict began. Russia Seeks Allies
Her paintings have awed and amazed the public for half a century.
With its insane mix of loves-me-loves-me-nots, switcheroos, flawed motives, crooked laughs and crying babies, it is one of cinema's most buoyant genres.
His face was badly clawed by his little brother.
Behold thoroughly dimensional characters, quirky and flawed and utterly believable whether human or nonhuman.
He came from a very humble background but clawed his way to success. The Sun
In previous tales, he had been portrayed as a clawed, noseless monster.
From the walls of the room jagged flashes of blue-white lightning clawed out at the creature, outlining it in a momentary nimbus of sparks and power which faded in the blink of an eye.
The pitcher stared down Pat Burrell after a called third strike to end the first, and Burrell jawed at Halladay while sprinkling in profanities. Phillies Extend NLCS With Game 5 Victory, Giants Lead 3-2
When Silicon Valley has it sfiber chain sawed, people are down. Reminder: You Can’t Stockpile Broadband
The bear pawed the door
What remains around the stone can be sliced off and then, as a last resort, gnawed with the teeth.
Windscreen washers and roadside advertising hoardings mounted on trailers are to be outlawed from Tauranga's streets.
Her emotions see-sawed from anger to fear.
Men began to say that he 'jawed' too much and would not let them go to bed, little knowing how he used to try to prolong a conversation so that he might not be left alone with a horrible fear always ready to pounce upon him when night fell, and when only the thud of the engines playing some maddening tune broke the silence. Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir
Proposals supporting non-cooperation are flawed as models.
He insists he is not overawed by the challenge of winning the South.
Mortgage fraud investigator Steve Dibert of MFI-Miami said, "Seventy percent of the loans we investigate are flawed due to recordation, PSA violations, etc. Richard Zombeck: Massachusetts Courts to Banks on Foreclosures: The Law Matters
Poultry thawed at room temperature may contain dangerously high levels of bacteria. Holiday Hazards
Great marble slabs clawed their way out of the earth, gigantic and marvellous, revelling in their beauty.
At the beach a mile later, after two deer in a patch of scrub oak bring the hikers to an awed standstill, the teachers present the day's lessons.
The man jumped, snapped his head at me and gave me a wild-eyed, slack-jawed expression of shock.
As if this isn't enough, even though his revisal of the phonology is fundamentally flawed with the basic data available to us, he goes on to add that chi is not a palatalized velar as his proposed pattern would suggest, but a velar fricative /x/. Some observations concerning Woodard's The Ancient Languages of Europe
Yoj continued "Bath -- bathymetric" -- the words sounded utterly alien, and the children's faces were awed. SKENE: CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
And everywhere about him were the pigmies; cold scaly hands pawed at him and rolled him over. "Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 4
Despite its marvelous achivements, Greek mathematics was flawed.
I don't think we should mourn the demise of our deeply-flawed nations.
This happened because the shuttle is a fundamentally flawed design. Hints of A Shuttle Extension Appear - NASA Watch
As the young woman rattled on she grew more and more glib; she was what they call whopper-jawed, and spoke a language almost purely consonantal, cutting and clipping her words with a rapid play of her whopper-jaw till there was nothing but the bare bones left of them. The Minister's Charge
Is the BBC staffed by flawed human beings who will occasionally make mistakes?
One just can't help feeling, however, that the entire base he has predicated his argument on is flawed.
Folding her clawed fingers into a tent, she nods.
Modi’s office is on an upper floor of a massive, scabby-faced ministry building in Gandhinagar, the planned city of government workers north of Ahmedabad that is a monument to the flawed architectural schemes of formerly socialist India. India’s New Face
In both movie and book, the murder is committed by a killer armed with what appears to have been a sawed-off shotgun.
The warmth of the restaurant and a few glasses of sherry really hit the spot, and having unthawed, we indulged in mouth-watering Southern cooking eating scrumptious shrimp and grits.
He did insist on remaining human and flawed and contradictory and in touch with other people. Times, Sunday Times
His clawed hand never strayed from the hilt of a long sword at his left hip.
He is a flawed, insecure character who seems suddenly to fear being left on his own.
To force the paradigm, Geoff Cohen was talking about a computer language where names and labels were outlawed.
Those ages that have outlawed it (and many hundreds have, by my reading) have replaced it largely with murder - and with just such murders, by and large, as monomachy seems designed to prevent: murders resulting from quarrels among families, friends, and acquaintances. The Shadow of the Torturer
Diggers, the size of twenty men pawed at the ice and snow. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Turning toward me, he pawed at the blankets, his horn pointing toward the pillow. Brush of Darkness

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