[ UK /ˈɔːstɹʌk/ ]
[ US /ˈɑˌstɹək/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
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How To Use awestruck In A Sentence

  • Talking about it, he momentarily sounds like an awestruck American tourist: "Omigod, it's just unbelievable!"
  • Local children watched awestruck as Her Excellency's helicopter touched down in the local sports ground.
  • Awestruck by its glittering new friends in business, but baffled by the complexities of the scheme it supports, it has been consistently outwitted and outmanoeuvred.
  • But their awestruck silence was soon replaced by gales of laughter when their teacher read the letter out loud.
  • Brenda, the urbanite, six locks on the door and an iron grille over the windows, was awestruck. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
  • Well, he was reg'lar jimdandy fer nerve, wa'n't he," said he finally in a little awestruck voice. The Red Badge of Courage
  • I stood on the precipice gulping air, awestruck.
  • I was fourteen and she was seven and we were both awestruck by the large house by the shimmering lake.
  • Behind a circular wood-bar, staff mix up magnificent concoctions like Guavapolitans and Lychee-tinis and awestruck babes and their boys knock them back like soda pop.
  • Stanley Matthews had his "bodyswerve", of course, a mysterious action that was always talked of in awestruck tones but never truly explained – the football equivalent of transubstantiation. Ashley Young has a turn of phrase to go with the tricks
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