awing

[ UK /ˈɔːɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
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How To Use awing In A Sentence

  • The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
  • She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor. The Italian
  • Thus, the power of drawing iron is one of the ideas of the complex one of that substance we call a loadstone; and a power to be so drawn is a part of the complex one we call iron: which powers pass for inherent qualities in those subjects. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • The 27 models on display in Washington, supplemented by paintings, drawings, sculpture and medallions, show the products of a rising social structure and new technique.
  • Figures for income, gross profit, salaries, motor expenses, drawings etc are fed into the Revenue computer system.
  • It was taxing to repeat the performance, and took nearly twice as long to finish drawing the sigils and runes.
  • Drawing an ultrasonic syringe from a cabinet in the wall, she slapped it against Kohlberg's arm and pressed.
  • At what age can you start drawing your pension ?
  • He shut his eyes, fingers clawing at the rock below him.
  • We can well afford to let them stare and smile, well knowing that if a similar amount of prosperity permitted the people of other countries to travel for their pleasure in similar numbers, the result would be at the very least an equally -- shall I say undrawing-room-like contribution to cosmopolitan society? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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