Example sentences for: awe

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

  • next to me or behind me, uttered in an undertone with a note of awe.

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

  • I've sat through it twice and am still trying to sort out my responses, which run from awe to mockery and back.

  • He was in awe of the beauty of the mighty Potomac in fall and of the rolling green hunt country around Middleburg and The Plains, Va., in summer.

  • Flick's name is clearly an hommage to Sammy Glick, the Hollywood hustler of Budd Schulberg's classic portrait of '30s ambition, What Makes Sammy Run ? Glick was viewed through the eyes of Al Manheim, a jaded lefty alcoholic who regarded this new species of capitalist human with contempt but also with awe: Sammy was a force of nature.


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