Awes can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| awe - inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the undergraduates" | ||
Noun |
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| awe - an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe" | ||
| awe - a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for the law bordered on veneration" |
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| 1. | verb | The general's massive presence awes everyone. | |
| 2. | verb | The scene would awe and terrify anyone. | |
| 3. | verb | The scene would awe and terrify anyone. | |
| 4. | noun | He stared over the edge with a feeling of awe. | |
| 5. | noun | They watched the solemn ceremony in the church with awe. | |
| 6. | noun | Benjamin called the sense of awe and reverence experienced before a great work of art "aura". | |
| 7. | noun | With deep and reverent awe I replaced the candelabrum in its former position. | |
| 8. | noun | I am immediately in awe of you! | |
| 9. | noun | The king inspires awe. | |
| 10. | noun | Tom and his children watched in awe as the magnificent old steam train thundered past. | |
| 11. | noun | I am suddenly in awe of you! | |
| 12. | noun | He stood in awe before her. | |
| 13. | noun | Mary is a woman who inspires awe in all who meet her. | |
| 14. | noun | I was in awe of Tom's courage. | |
| 15. | noun | No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty / enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, / Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is / earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam (whereto he / was converted) might they not stop a beer barrel? / Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, / Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. / O, that that earth which kept the world in awe / Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw! | |
| 16. | noun | All of Germania is separated from the Gauls, Raetians and Pannonians by the rivers Rhine and Danube, and from the Sarmatians and Dacians by mutual awe or mountains: the ocean surrounds the rest, encompassing wide peninsulas and the vast areas of islands, their peoples and kings just recently known to us, with whom war has now begun. | |
| 17. | noun | Those clothe with awe / the Senate; there they choose the judges for the law. / These delve the port; the broad foundations there / they lay for theatres of ample space, / and columns, hewn from marble rocks, prepare, / tall ornaments, the future stage to grace. | |
| 18. | noun | Lucy felt a secret awe, amid all her affection for Ravenswood. |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| The general's massive presence awes everyone. | |
| The scene would awe and terrify anyone. | |
| The scene would awe and terrify anyone. | |
| noun | |
| He stared over the edge with a feeling of awe. |
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| They watched the solemn ceremony in the church with awe. | |
| Benjamin called the sense of awe and reverence experienced before a great work of art "aura". | |
| With deep and reverent awe I replaced the candelabrum in its former position. | |
| I am immediately in awe of you! | |
| The king inspires awe. | |
| Tom and his children watched in awe as the magnificent old steam train thundered past. | |
| I am suddenly in awe of you! | |
| He stood in awe before her. | |
| Mary is a woman who inspires awe in all who meet her. | |
| I was in awe of Tom's courage. | |
| No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty / enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, / Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is / earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam (whereto he / was converted) might they not stop a beer barrel? / Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, / Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. / O, that that earth which kept the world in awe / Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw! | |
| All of Germania is separated from the Gauls, Raetians and Pannonians by the rivers Rhine and Danube, and from the Sarmatians and Dacians by mutual awe or mountains: the ocean surrounds the rest, encompassing wide peninsulas and the vast areas of islands, their peoples and kings just recently known to us, with whom war has now begun. | |
| Those clothe with awe / the Senate; there they choose the judges for the law. / These delve the port; the broad foundations there / they lay for theatres of ample space, / and columns, hewn from marble rocks, prepare, / tall ornaments, the future stage to grace. | |
| Lucy felt a secret awe, amid all her affection for Ravenswood. | |