How To Use Awestruck In A Sentence
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Talking about it, he momentarily sounds like an awestruck American tourist: "Omigod, it's just unbelievable!"
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Local children watched awestruck as Her Excellency's helicopter touched down in the local sports ground.
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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.
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But their awestruck silence was soon replaced by gales of laughter when their teacher read the letter out loud.
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Brenda, the urbanite, six locks on the door and an iron grille over the windows, was awestruck.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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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
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I stood on the precipice gulping air, awestruck.
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I was fourteen and she was seven and we were both awestruck by the large house by the shimmering lake.
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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.
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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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We were both awestruck by our initial view of the country - and equally stiff and tired.
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When he stopped, it took almost five seconds for the awestruck audience to realise it.
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In their tenderness and intimacy, their heartfelt experience of Jesus' final hours, and their prayerful, awestruck participation in the mercy poured out in him, the chorales and choruses became prayer.
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Two," he said, in awestruck tones; "there never was such a nipper!
Harding's Luck
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The failure of civil servants was that they regarded him with awestruck reverence.
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Breathtakingly kitsch to the outsider, many Japanese would simply utter an awestruck "kawaii!"
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Katherine stood frozen in the spot, staring awestruck once more at the shadowy figure, which now appeared to be watching them.
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The denouement, where the mother mourns her daughter lying dead on the stage, left the audience awestruck and silent for a long moment of grief, before breaking into rapturous applause.
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Dr Chris Beard, curator of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, was "awestruck" by the publicity machine but concerned that if the hype was exaggerated, it could damage the popularisation of science if the creature was not all that it was hyped up to be.
[evolution] and its shoddy tactics
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Clearly I didn't look sufficiently awestruck.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
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We wander, awestruck, amid these languid mountains of blubber.
Times, Sunday Times
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I, the impatient outfielder am awestruck -- by a young Frenchman who runs circles around me, philosophically, having hit another balle of wisdom out of the ball park.
French Word-A-Day:
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For truly positive experiences, "awestruck" is my favorite.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Stunned
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I spent a lot of time in the Cooper stock shop and watched awestruck as a talented stockmaker with nothing but a pencil outlined a classic's cheekpiece and then made it happen with a couple of wood rasps.
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I stood on the precipice gulping air, awestruck.
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At each home, Bakshi would ask the awestruck man how much he thought his hut was worth.
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There was a pause, and then I asked, in awestruck tones, "Will the angels fetch papa, do you think?
Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
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Unobserved he rose and glided away; while, awestruck by the aspect of their commander, the seamen clustered together on the forecastle, till Ahab, troubledly pacing the deck, shouted out -- "To the braces!
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
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Fresh from the airport, they have their bags with them and they look a little awestruck by LA.
Times, Sunday Times
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People were awestruck by the pictures the satellite sent back to earth.
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After 400 pages of dodgy dialogue, screaming stereotypes, telenovela melodrama and transparent revisionist autobiography, any sentient being would be awestruck.
Times, Sunday Times
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We wander, awestruck, amid these languid mountains of blubber.
Times, Sunday Times
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Later, his high school bandleader was awestruck by his ability to improvise on the saxophone.
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The audience, suitably awestruck, could only stare in wonder.
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Once we entered the building, I just stared at all the fabric, completely awestruck by all the silk, wool, gabardine - whatever you could possibly want.
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All the family members were thrown into awestruck silence under the threat of the gunmen.
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If his hosts had heard it before, they were too awestruck to let it show.
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He fielded questions about education reform and alcoholism from his visibly awestruck guests.
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For a dozen heartbeats the city was awestruck, numbed and silent.
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For some reason, I still maintain the awestruck wonder of a kinder planting beans pressed against the side of a jar so that the roots, hypocotyl, and plumule display, then watch in amazement as they burst through the ground and struggle toward the light.
"Hey, Matt. Sure is a gorgeous day to get drunk and throw beanbags back and forth on the front sidewalk for 11 hours!"
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She looked at him awestruck, as if he was a film star.
Seminary Boy
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For a dozen heartbeats the city was awestruck, numbed and silent.
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Decked out as a thriller — complete with a heroine thirsting for justice, a wily villain scrambling to stay one step ahead, cross-country chases, and close escapes — it is also another T.C. Boyle story of relationships gone awry, of strong women and the slightly awestruck men who orbit them.
New Fiction
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At the nearby aquarium, the children were awestruck by the different kinds of fish.
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in grim despair and awestruck wonder
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She looks awestruck at the idea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even looking at the graphics doesn't instill any sense of awestruck wonder.
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She was surrounded by a group of awestruck teenagers all snapping away on their camera phones.
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While I didn't share a belief in the manitous, I could still be awestruck by the power around me.
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All the family members were thrown into awestruck silence under the threat of the gunmen.
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He was such an impressive person and I was awestruck when I met him for the first time.
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But it is the quality of his goals as much as the quantity that leaves spectators awestruck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once we entered the building, I just stared at all the fabric, completely awestruck by all the silk, wool, gabardine - whatever you could possibly want.
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We were awestruck by the amazing views down the ravine and on to the river.
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The way you use words to exact the maximum meaning with such simplicity leaves me awestruck.
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He recalls being awestruck by these images, especially the paintings of St. Mary and St. George.
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He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
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In a taxi in Mumbai, she sat quietly on the back seat awestruck by the towering buildings almost touching the sky on either side of the road.
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I have been awestruck by this man for a year now and he just keeps getting better.
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Israfil," the Boy said suddenly, leaning forward to look at the book, as if to make sure, and speaking in an awestruck voice -- "is that the
The Heavenly Twins
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But their awestruck silence was soon replaced by gales of laughter when their teacher read the letter out loud.
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About 125 years later, the town erected an enormous, life-sized model of the squid, so that all who look upon it might be awestruck.
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Indeed the Prime Minister looked more awestruck of her than she was of him when he presented the medals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finnegan howled and spluttered in inebriate rage, then sank back in his seat and stared up at Arabella with a kind of awestruck respect.
Salvage for the Saint
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At the nearby aquarium, the children were awestruck by the different kinds of fish.
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The fans are awestruck and their earlier bravado quickly disappears.
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Take that spectacular parade. What message was it meant to convey to an awestruck world?
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He was such an impressive person and I was awestruck when I met him for the first time.
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When you first do the space walk you are just utterly awestruck for the first few seconds about how beautiful it is.
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But I also feel a little awestruck at the artfulness and audacity of it all.
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The scene will leave you awestruck: a family of gorillas taking it easy in the wild.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Belgium were completely and utterly awestruck.
The Sun
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Today, she's proud of her daughter and is "awestruck" when she's at one of her premieres.
Kerry Washington and mom Valerie: A picture of love
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And Miss Tabitha, who really was not very deaf when she set herself to hear, nodded in awestruck silence.
The Cuckoo Clock
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I was too awestruck to get any pictures; fortunately, Luke was there to handle it.
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Yet I dare say the chorus of a musical comedy would not be awestruck -- would, indeed, 'bridle' -- if one unrolled to them their illustrious pedigree.
Yet Again
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At the height of the craze, I stood on the North Bank at Highbury in a forest of bananas, watching awestruck as they celebrated another goal going in by either bopping your neighbour over the head, or simply chucking the thing in the air.
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Unobserved he rose and glided away; while, awestruck by the aspect of their commander, the seamen clustered together on the forecastle, till Ahab, troubledly pacing the deck, shouted out -- 'To the braces!
Moby-Dick, or, The Whale
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I commiserated Patrick Swayze's death back in September (How I'll Always Remember Patrick Swayze) and saw pictures of his final year or two and was awestruck at how his physique had deteriorated.
How I'll Always Remember Dennis Hopper
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For some reason, I still maintain the awestruck wonder of a kinder planting beans pressed against the side of a jar so that the roots, hypocotyl, and plumule display, then watch in amazement as they burst through the ground and struggle toward the light.
"Hey, Matt. Sure is a gorgeous day to get drunk and throw beanbags back and forth on the front sidewalk for 11 hours!"
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I sat with her while she was having her make up put on and just stared in awestruck wonderment that someone could be so ladylike.
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On its own, his army—the "Golden Horde", as awestruck local Slavs were later to nickname the newcomers—could dominate the region.
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We wander, awestruck, amid these languid mountains of blubber.
Times, Sunday Times
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In their tenderness and intimacy, their heartfelt experience of Jesus' final hours, and their prayerful, awestruck participation in the mercy poured out in him, the chorales and choruses became prayer.
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Those who mastered the rather complicated process of making daguerreotypes were awestruck that these pictures revealed details invisible to the naked eye.
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It is obvious to see why we revere literature of this sort; why we offer Nobel prizes to its creators, and form awestruck reading groups to pay it homage.
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I could tell she was impressed from the awestruck expression on her face.
