How to Use overawe in a Sentence

overawe

verb

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• The game often seems devastatingly intent on overawing players with its painstakingly detailed recreations of the ancient or the medieval.
  — Daniel Starkey, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 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
• 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

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