How to Use overawe in a Sentence

overawe

verb
  • Kenin was on the back foot for the opener, though didn't appear to be overawed in her first grand slam final.
    — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 1 Feb. 2020
  • The visitors started the game brightly and weren't overawed by the occasion.
    — SI.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Would a team known as big-tournament chokers be overawed by the occasion of hosting a Women's World Cup?
    — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 7 June 2019
  • Instead of playing our signature style, the players looked completely overawed by being on the World Cup stage.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • The Serb looked to be at his very best for long periods of the match but Bautista Agut, not at all overawed by the occasion in his first grand slam semifinal, matched his opponent's brilliance at times.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 12 July 2019
  • Routliffe and Melichar-Martinez seemed a little overawed by the occasion, both hitting costly double faults and missing regulation volleys.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • In previous seasons, the prospect of getting a positive result at a ground like the Santiago Bernabéu, would have been completely overawing.
    — SI.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • By causing international shocks, Russia hopes to overawe the West once again, both presenting it the prospect of a winter energy shortage and stoking crises in the developing world.
    — Seth Cropsey, National Review, 20 July 2022
  • In what was his full debut, Chamberlain failed to link with his attacking partners on a series of occasions and appeared to be overawed and jaded by the encounter with Craig Shakespeare's resurgent squad.
    — SI.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The hosts weren't overawed by the occasion in the opening stages of the game and their young winger Milot Rashica was their biggest attacking outlet, getting the better of Lukasz Piszczek on more than one occasion.
    — SI.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Philosophers and others in the field of the humanities who helped shape previous concepts of world order tend to be disadvantaged, lacking knowledge of AI’s mechanisms or being overawed by its capacities.
    — Henry A. Kissinger, The Atlantic, 15 May 2018
  • The Exiles certainly were not overawed by the occasion or the surroundings and worked hard while Spurs maintained possession without really testing Joe Day in the visitors' goal.
    — SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • On the other hand, every white man who played vigilante in Charlottesville this weekend went home unharmed to his family, having successfully overawed the police—and having sent a chilling message of warning to lawful protesters.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2017
  • The only possible argument against these activities would be that the former president's lingering aura of majesty would somehow overawe his business partners or opposing counsel or fellow lawmakers or whatever.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Which is why Sunday’s first-half display felt so peculiar, Brighton being overrun and overawed by Liverpool, who deservedly went 2-0 up inside 23 minutes and seemingly had their ticket to Wembley in hand.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 11 May 2026

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