Sentence example with the word 'overawe'

overawe

abash, bully, daunt, dishearten, frighten, keep down, override, scare, terrorize, tyrannize over

Definition v. subdue

Last update: October 3, 2015


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Her beauty overawed him.   [Please select]

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A detachment of European troops is generally stationed here to overawe the fanatical Moplahs.   [Please select]

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Yet he was overawed, and so were the Indians with him.   [Please select]

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Overawed by the reproach, he persevered in dutiful silence and expired.   [Please select]

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Nightingale, overawed by the magnitude of the venture, could only approve.   [Please select]

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"He put them on and tried to overawe the crowd that night when I was threatened in the market-place."   [Please select]

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The immensity of the sea had always silenced and overawed him, left him cold in feeling.   [Please select]

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The sight that met his gaze there might have overawed the most reckless of men.   [Please select]

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He is not to be overawed even by the sturdiest of rumps.   [Please select]

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Again the Yellow Handkerchief was overawed, and with surly looks he led three of his men aboard the _Reindeer_.   [Please select]

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Her hovering, hitherto silent, develops a buzz, perhaps to overawe the victim; her flight becomes an extremely rapid oscillation, always behind the quarry.   [Please select]

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