Example sentences for: awe

How can you use “awe” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1962, the writer William Manchester published Portrait of a President , a book so gushing in its praise of John F. Kennedy, so slack-jawed in awe, that the White House distributed copies as souvenirs.

  • homophones: creak/creek; plain/ plane, bow/bough, tear/tare, tear/tier, roe/row, allowed/aloud , etc.; triplets: bawd/bored/board, sword/sawed/soared, cite/sight/sight ; quadruplets: write/right/rite/wright, or/oar/awe/ore --a quintuplet if you allow Aw as in US expression Aw gee!

  • It's actually not unreasonable to feel awe on this New Year's Eve, even if you don't believe that it is the 2000th anniversary of the birth of the era of our savior.

  • The great religions are a product of the same sense of awe.

  • ESPN, like everyone else, expressed awe at his comeback . "I'm happy I finished second.


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