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- adjective Awe-struck.
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- adjective
Awe-struck .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread
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Examples
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The audience gasped and murmured awe-stricken applause.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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"Can she come in?" we asked the greeters at the door, pointing to our awe-stricken daughter.
Susan Eley: Hooters to Swan Lake During One Week in New York Susan Eley 2010
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"Can she come in?" we asked the greeters at the door, pointing to our awe-stricken daughter.
Susan Eley: Hooters to Swan Lake During One Week in New York Susan Eley 2010
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The audience gasped and murmured awe-stricken applause.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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The dog-musher swore softly, in awe-stricken accents.
The Long Trail 2010
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He can play with blinding speed, or the faintest delicacy that can bring even the drunks at the Hard Rock into awe-stricken silence.
Brian Ross: Joe Bonamassa: The Best Living Guitarist You've Never Heard Of... Brian Ross 2010
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He can play with blinding speed, or the faintest delicacy that can bring even the drunks at the Hard Rock into awe-stricken silence.
Brian Ross: Joe Bonamassa: The Best Living Guitarist You've Never Heard Of... Brian Ross 2010
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One by one the awe-stricken men stepped softly in and gathered round the sarcophagus, staring down wide-eyed upon the white face of Professor Hicks.
"The Moon Woman" by Minna Irving, part 2 Johnny Pez 2010
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One by one the awe-stricken men stepped softly in and gathered round the sarcophagus, staring down wide-eyed upon the white face of Professor Hicks.
Archive 2010-04-01 Johnny Pez 2010
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Honestly, I am just so awe-stricken and grateful that an artist of your caliber is, well, one of us.
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