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Example sentences for "awing"

Lexicographically close words:
awfulness; awheel; awhile; awhirl; awin; awiyah; awkward; awkwardly; awkwardness; awkwardnesses
  1. I should always be thinking I had some Minerva tutoring, or some Juno awing me.

  2. On many sylvan eves of childhood thou Didst woo my homeward path with tenderness, Woo till the awing owlet ceased to cow With his chill screech of quavering distress.

  3. Dull brooding chords bring a sombre play of the awing phrase, over a faint rocking motion, clashing in bold harmony, while the horns surge in broader melody.

  4. A flight of ascending chords brings the big exaltation of the first prophetic phrase, ever answered by exultant ring of trumpet, ending in sudden awing pause.

  5. Her faulty administration, moreover, drew the people into the crime, because she exasperated without sufficiently awing them.

  6. Thy will is chaste, it is thy fancy only Which hath polluted thee--and innocence, It will not let itself be driven away From that world-awing aspect.

  7. In their eyes the affairs of the world fell into subordinate relations, while the interests of the Church loomed up in over-awing proportions.

  8. Your services in the lower part of South Carolina, in awing the Tories and preventing the enemy from extending their limits, have been very important.

  9. Horry succeeded in awing Gainey into submission, and in extorting from him a treaty by which he consented, with his officers and men, to maintain a condition of neutrality.

  10. Boyer was informed of it, and so powerful did it appear, that he immediately ordered troops to advance for the purpose of awing the people into an acquiescence in the arrangements which had been made.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "awing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alarming; awesome; awful; bizarre; chilling; deterrent; disconcerting; discouraging; disheartening; dismaying; disquieting; eerie; fearful; fearsome; frightening; frightful; marvelous; mysterious; scary; startling; uncanny; weird