: showing awe
awed respect

Examples of awed in a Sentence

gave the nationally known golfer an awed look
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Fifty years later Bruce regards the song with a kind of awed detachment. Peter Ames Carlin, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025 An instant later, six-foot-tall flames burst upward in blazing pillars, followed by an intoxicating waft of garlic, lemon and herbs that permeated the air over a crowd of awed onlookers. Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 25 July 2025 An hour later, Jess stood atop a cement terrace, awed by the sea of chatter, laughter and shouts that swamped the plaza. Bennet Goldstein, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025 In Wakanda Forever, Riri was a breath of fresh air, playing the awed but capable tourist in a grieving, technologically advanced nation. Stacia Brown, Vulture, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for awed

Word History

First Known Use

1591, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of awed was in 1591

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“Awed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/awed. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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