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Meanings of awestruck in English
Portuguese
deslumbrado Having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread.
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Examples for "awed"
Examples for "awed"
1
He was feeling both awed by the unexpected responsibility and tremendously important.
2
But having seen Eddie in action at first hand, I was awed.
3
Shocked and awed, we were smacked by the reality of the judgment.
4
The Rough Red shifted his feet, almost awed in spite of himself.
5
While nearby the two with him watched it all in awed silence.
1
Theo turned away from the window with a sad, almost awestricken face.
2
She was temporarily tongue-tied, awestricken, full of a strange superstitious horror.
3
We were awestricken and I awoke with the same feeling.
4
Jesse and his investigator stood awestricken at what they saw.
5
At last Miss Matty and Mrs Forrester became perfectly awestricken.
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Vernell said local police tended to be in awe of the Bureau.
2
Even today, professional mathematicians are still in awe of things he did.
3
Even the packers were in awe of him, so the men said.
4
She stood in awe of her Father's brother, lord of the sea
5
We're exhausted and in awe of the kids' enthusiasm and natural talent.
Usage of awestruck in English
1
After the doctors and nurses had left, I whispered an awestruck question:
2
I pause, quite awestruck at the thought of my sister becoming queen.
3
Large and small, we stood awestruck in the presence of these marvels.
4
When asked what he thought of the clip, he seemed truly awestruck.
5
The two women looked at the flowers, almost awestruck at their size.
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He was awestruck at the thought of such a surrender-sucha prostration.
7
Jacky looked on awestruck as George read the book of his religion.
8
That is a feat of tantric consumption it can only admire, awestruck.
9
Izzy watched, apparently awestruck, as airy white foam bubbled up around her.
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And in the silence a single voice in the awestruck crowds cried shrilly:
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Your ability to read and count left the local villagers awestruck.
12
Some of the men muttered and looked at the youth in awestruck ways.
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I was awestruck: I didn't expect it to be that easy.
14
Even Pyrrha, who had seen her unclad many times, looked a little awestruck.
15
When Grant finally spoke, his voice sounded distinctly odd, almost awestruck.
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He was awestruck by the appalling suddenness of death and destruction.
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