overawe

How To Use overawe In A Sentence

• He certainly didn't look overawed as he stepped on to the first tee and smacked his drive a mile down the fairway. US Open 2011: Rory McIlroy into final round with eight-shot lead
• We may have no big names of stars on our team but they are all triers to the last and will not be overawed by the reputation of the Dubs.
• Having eaten there but once - and I was a guest so didn't have to pay, either - I was almost overawed by its excellence.
• You respect them for who they are, but you can't let that overawe you.
• He insists he is not overawed by the challenge of winning the South.
• The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
• They had some big names in their squad but we weren't overawed, especially since a few of them were past their prime.
• Though I believe in artistic egalitarianism, I was overawed by the big names.
• Handkerchief was overawed, and with surly looks he led three of his men aboard the Reindeer. White and Yellow
• Gordon himself was a real charmer but he puts on this volatile act for the cameras and I think our chef was totally overawed by him.