(a.) Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
(a.) Expressive of awe or terror.
Example Sentences:
(1) This year, we have started building better tools for moderators and for admins to help keep subreddits and Reddit awesome, but our infrastructure is monolithic, and it is going to take some time.
(2) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
(3) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(4) The best way, perhaps, to sum up the awesome strength of this Spanish squad is to look at the category-A footballers who did not even start this match – a list that includes Pepe Reina, Cesc Fábregas and Fernando Torres, quite possibly the best goalkeeper, midfielder and striker in England last season.
(5) He's awesome," Rodman said of Kim – comments that were immediately attacked by those who tend to focus on North Korea's human rights record.
(6) The international players on the Spurs, and there are an awful lot of them, are representing their home countries which is kind of awesome to see.
(7) It is early days, and what is to say the people of Gateshead or Cardiff will be quite so forthcoming with the exclamations of "cool", "awesome" and "neat" as the audience in Oxford.
(8) We approached a community of women, members of a "platform for awesome women" called The Li.st , to find out.
(9) The exercise by a state of its most awesome power – the power to deprive a citizen of his life – must be accompanied by due process and complete transparency.
(10) He said he was grateful that the attack was bringing the community together and that it was “awesome honestly to be able to give people a hope that not everybody hates everybody”.
(11) Whenever the Austrian director shows one of his films in Cannes, I always come out thinking the others might as well just pack up and go home because they'll never reach his awesome heights of control and precision.
(12) Another curiosity - LeSean McCoy was held well under 100 yards that day, and he's awesome.
(13) This must be the most awesomely authoritarian project to emerge in western Europe since 1945.
(14) If you are trying to analyse a game, don’t stop at, “if I just added sniper rifles to this, it would be cool” – think about all the ways that adding sniper rifles could really hurt the game; try to understand design as a precarious balance, not just a shopping list of awesome shit.
(15) Maktabi cites responses "that range from 'I want to have this now because I want to try it with my boyfriend'", to "I want to write about the anthropological impact of this app on…", and adds that his favourites are "those anonymous messages that just say 'awesome'".
(16) It is just so awesome to see how the crowds are out there,” said Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, who added that she ended up stuck in her car after protests shut down traffic.
(17) The “biscuit” and “football” are the embodiment of the awesome, civilisation-ending power that will be put in Trump’s hands on 20 January.
(18) Camera Awesome The hit iOS photography app snapped onto Android this year, with just as impressive a range of photography features focused on taking better shots, not just on sharing them.
(19) "That's no criticism to girls who can wear a tiny dress and kill it – that's awesome.
(20) I think it's going to age well – when I played it yesterday it sounded fucking awesome.
Awestruck
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It's this unsettling montage of re-enactment, confessional and political exposé that grabbed the attention of doco-godfathers Werner Herzog and Errol Morris – both executive producers – as well as awestruck critics the world over.
(2) I was completely and utterly awestruck,” he recalls.
(3) Yet it had no influence: over the following 46 years, the divide has grown almost totally obscure, the average pop star growing older, grander and more statesmanlike, the average politician younger, more awestruck and deferential.
(4) Like those people who gathered, awestruck, in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall in 2002 to gaze at Anish Kapoor's monumental Marsyas installation, festivalgoers gasped and goggled at Malick's film.
(5) It is closer to some kind of symphonic cine-poem, with movements rather than acts or scenes: memories of an unhappy childhood are shot through with visions of the universe, agonised, awestruck epiphanies of scale.
(6) There was a scene in episode three that was so awesome – in the sense that I was awestruck by the scale of the set – that it was really humbling.
(7) Their pleasure is to be found in having their lovely friends measuring the weight of their baubles, and being awestruck."
(8) and awestruck girls silently mouthing every word to every song, it is difficult to be cynical.
(9) He sounds awestruck, as well he might, since he's witnessing at a distance of a few metres things that leave us slack-jawed in our living rooms.
(10) It is impossible to tell what a film is really going to be like from a trailer, but here the awestruck tone is obvious.
(11) Standing beside his leather-clad backing band 3RDEYEGIRL, the diminutive pop maestro thanked London for making him feel "extra loved" and handed out the best British female award to an awestruck Ellie Goulding .
(12) It is based on awestruck reports about the ageing and drunken Errol Flynn's chaotic appearance on Sid Caesar's programme Your Show of Shows in the 50s.
(13) When one of my cousins-a-million-times-removed contacted me from Australia via Facebook to tell me that she'd been composing a family tree and I was on it, I was awestruck with admiration.
(14) I f atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima.” Robert Oppenheimer’s words in 1945 remind us today, 70 years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, how the brilliant Los Alamos scientists who produced the deadliest weapon ever conceived were awestruck by what they had created.
(15) First-time visitors are often awestruck by the desert's vivid colours.
(16) Although there are no facilities to speak of, its otherworldly drama attracts awestruck tourists year round.
(17) Commentators are awestruck by the old man's sheer "chutzpah" (BBC) , with a "you've got to hand it to him" note of admiration all round, restoring the "morale" of the Sun newsroom.
(18) She sounds awestruck when she talks about her father.
(19) Simultaneously knowledgable and awestruck, Fattorini managed to turn the climax to a throwaway 10-minute segment about Napoleon’s favourite booze into a genuinely compelling piece of television.
(20) Discussing the Cambridge assault, Sweeney told Harris: "You were clowning around and took advantage of the fact that she was somewhat awestruck.