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- adjective Filled with
awe .
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Examples
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"From the grass roots down," he muttered in an awestricken voice, as he swung his pick into the yielding surface.
Chapter XXVII 2010
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Apparently, Davy Goldblatt takes my silence as that of the awestricken variety, because he jumps up and claps his hands together, absolutely pleased not only—but mostly—with himself but also with how the entire three-minute meeting has gone.
Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010
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Apparently, Davy Goldblatt takes my silence as that of the awestricken variety, because he jumps up and claps his hands together, absolutely pleased not only—but mostly—with himself but also with how the entire three-minute meeting has gone.
Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010
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Chain car collisions on the Interstate, hysteria-tinged second by second updates from the weatherman on the local TV stations, a stunned, awestricken look from the locals that almost made one think that this was surely the first time they had ever seen this precipitation thing occurring.
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Nobody will notice your zit because they will be too awestricken with your fabulousness.
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Nobody will notice your zit because they will be too awestricken with your fabulousness.
Zipless 2007
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And in the midst of this discussion, making a sudden and awestricken silence, appeared
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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“Gaw!” he whispered at last, in awestricken tones.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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Theo turned away from the window with a sad, almost awestricken face.
The Virginians 2006
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She gave much time to them and thought; visited from house to house, without ostentation; was awestricken by that spectacle of the poverty which we have with us always, of which the sight rebukes our selfish griefs into silence, the thought compels us to charity, humility, and devotion.
The Newcomes 2006
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