ADJECTIVE
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having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread
stood in awed silence before the shrine
in grim despair and awestruck wonder
How To Use awestricken In A Sentence
- Chain car collisions on the Interstate, hysteria-tinged second by second updates from the weatherman on the local TV stations, a stunned, awestricken look from the locals that almost made one think that this was surely the first time they had ever seen this precipitation thing occurring. Election Central Sunday Roundup
- And in the midst of this discussion, making a sudden and awestricken silence, appeared The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
- Theo turned away from the window with a sad, almost awestricken face. The Virginians
- Apparently, Davy Goldblatt takes my silence as that of the awestricken variety, because he jumps up and claps his hands together, absolutely pleased not only—but mostly—with himself but also with how the entire three-minute meeting has gone. Hollywood Savage
- From the grass roots down," he muttered in an awestricken voice, as he swung his pick into the yielding surface. Chapter XXVII
- Nobody will notice your zit because they will be too awestricken with your fabulousness. Zipless | Her Bad Mother
- “Gaw!” he whispered at last, in awestricken tones. The War in the Air
- She gave much time to them and thought; visited from house to house, without ostentation; was awestricken by that spectacle of the poverty which we have with us always, of which the sight rebukes our selfish griefs into silence, the thought compels us to charity, humility, and devotion. The Newcomes
- And as he left the auditorium the awestricken crowd got to their feet and cheered him on…
- Miss Jean heard their voices, first low and awestricken, rising in eagerness and loudness as they got further from the house. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago