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Example sentences for "awesome"

Lexicographically close words:
awed; aweer; aweful; awen; awes; awestricken; awestruck; awey; awfu; awful
  1. Instantly there came a resounding, awesome roar, and eight fiery trails, each headed by a brilliant greenish light, were flashing toward the balloon.

  2. It was a pretty awesome thing to be amid the storm-clouds, with the coppery colored and bluish gleams now playing almost constantly about him; and this singular situation conjured up all sorts of strange fancies.

  3. That most awesome silence which sometimes holds sway over spectators when they are witnesses to a catastrophe which they are powerless to avert had settled upon the crowd.

  4. Vara," said Cleg quickly, "ye are awesome bonny when ye speak like that.

  5. A' my things are awesome big across," he said, "but maybe there will be eneuch amang us to fit ye oot.

  6. That's an awesome nice view," said Cleg, when the pair beneath had done this four or five times.

  7. There's an awesome heap o' wild beasts here to shoot if only I had a pistol.

  8. After some few minutes, one ventured to break the awesome silence.

  9. He shut his eyes as he went on and heard the tramp of the twelve jurors re-entering the court in the midst of a profound and awesome silence.

  10. His startled eyes fell upon two awful and awesome figures.

  11. But that wretched man would not trouble the authorities more--His last breath had been drawn as she stood there listening to those awesome sounds.

  12. Wrapped in my hooded duffle coat, I paced the snow-covered moss and exulted in the awesome spectacle until long after midnight.

  13. Meantime the executioner’s island undeniably proves one of the features of Nauplia, quaint to see, and shrouded with a sort of awesome mystery.

  14. The game of shuttlecock and battledoor has been going on in this dark and awesome gorge since Heaven knows when.

  15. Everywhere, on banks and islands, are the evidences of disastrous floods, and the ponderous ice-breakers above the bridges give one an awesome notion of the condition of affairs at such a time.

  16. Somewhere in the unknown distances we heard strange sounds--the awesome rumble of water or the cry of forlorn birds.

  17. And he spoke truth, for anything more fierce and awesome than the enemy I have never seen.

  18. Even there we could hear the roar of the cataract, and an awesome thing it was in that lonely place.

  19. Niagara has one beauty in which it is unapproached by the great Chaudiere: the awesome slowness with which the deep-green flood, in the center of the Horseshoe Fall, rolls rather than plunges into the gulf.

  20. This was at the horse-station of "The Monuments," a natural temple of awesome grandeur, rising from the plains like a giant Stonehenge.

  21. Then, waur than a', there's the awesome nichts whan the ghaists and warlocks are aboot.

  22. But only tearin' belly-hunger gied us strength to eat that awesome meat.

  23. With great simplicity and directness he alluded to the awesome news which this morning had brought to them, to England.

  24. Those present followed the order of the marriage service with very varying emotions, and never had the Dean delivered the familiar, awesome words with more feeling and more grace of diction.

  25. Good night, Sal," and, with a dexterity that smote Gabriel into awesome and admiring silence, she absolutely led the breathless Sal to the door and closed it upon her before that astonished female could recover her speech.

  26. So dark, so deep and awesome it seemed, that all hands drew back, almost in a sweat of cold terror.

  27. But they succeeded at last, and stood silent and with a kind of awesome delight.

  28. I knew one thing, though: if interest rates headed down, raising the value of those presold obligations, he'd be forced to cover awesome losses.

  29. I realized my little telephone boiler room had merely been the tip of some awesome iceberg.

  30. He was going to lay bare the empire, the awesome machine he now had at his command.

  31. The thought of the savage stranger filled the place with such awesome fancies that he could not help going out from it very hastily ahead of Lister, who grumbled a little that Miles was so speedy to be off with the candle.

  32. Miles thought on it the night long; this death, lonely by itself, was so much more awesome than the crowded sicknesses of the last winter.

  33. A blinding light for an instant tore across the sky, and showed the trees about him twisting in an awesome manner; then darkness closed in again, and, through it, deafened the appalling crash of thunder.

  34. It had an awesome look, like the yawning mouth of a cave, opening to intense darkness and mysterious danger.

  35. An awesome panorama of mighty cliffs, inaccessible islands and isolated rocks over which the seas dashed with extraordinary fury, was opening up with ever-increasing clearness.

  36. But he recalled vividly enough the sight of an awesome precipice close at hand before something had hit him and robbed him of senses.

  37. I’m willing to admit,” said Grant, “that the sounds we heard on the island and the conditions under which we made our visit of investigation gave me a few unpleasant and awesome sensations.

  38. The shadows seemed to be thickening with amazing swiftness, and, shaken by the sudden dreadful thought of night upon that awesome island, Sleuth beat a precipitate retreat.

  39. Nevertheless, there seemed to be something eerie and awesome pervading the very atmosphere and made doubly acute by the absence of any unusual sight or sound.

  40. The wind howled around the tent and crashed together the limbs of the trees; through the woods it roared, with a sound scarcely less awesome than that of the almost incessant volleying of the thunder.

  41. Never had he imagined that a night in the woods could be so fraught with awesome and terrible sounds.

  42. Within four feet of the creature, Piper felt a momentary symptom of the emotion that had possessed him on the occasion when his ears were first greeted by that awesome sound.

  43. There is something awesome about the dawning of a new day, and especially when one has been sailing a sea of silver all night.

  44. Some one is calling you, and that thing is beginning to move again," said the girl, an awesome wonder in her face.

  45. Still that awesome personage presiding over the fortunes of the First Reader failed to return.

  46. Made of pure gold, with a jewel gleaming from his hand, the Maya god, an awesome creation, stood before them.

  47. A Central American jungle is an awesome and terrible place.

  48. There he sat, whiles prayin, whiles thinkin on his wife and weans, but oftener o' Ellen Graeme and her threat, and the awesome black dog he had met.

  49. He daredna open his een, for fear he might be scared by some awesome sicht.

  50. But the older children held their breath, and Teddy’s exclamation was succeeded by an awesome silence.

  51. But the awesome thrill that had permeated Matt’s being passed into one of æsthetic pleasure mingled with astonished recognition.

  52. He had long since finished speaking, but now there were no longer any protestations or murmurs; an awesome silence hung about the vaulted room.

  53. This girl then knew something of that awesome occurrence, which, despite outside assurances, had remained vaguely puzzling to Lenora's mind.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "awesome" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aggrandized; amazing; appalling; astounding; astronomic; astronomical; awesome; awful; beatified; big; bizarre; boundless; bulky; colossal; conspicuous; cosmic; cosmical; dire; divine; dread; dreadful; eerie; elevated; eminent; enormous; estimable; exalted; excellent; extensive; fearsome; fell; formidable; ghastly; ghoulish; gigantic; glorified; grand; great; grim; grisly; gruesome; heavenly; hideous; high; holy; honorable; horrible; horrid; horrifying; huge; immeasurable; immense; immortal; immortalized; impressive; incredible; ineffable; inexpressible; infinite; inviolable; inviolate; large; lofty; macabre; magnified; majestic; mammoth; marvelous; massive; mighty; monster; monstrous; monumental; morbid; mountainous; mysterious; overgrown; overwhelming; portentous; prodigious; redoubtable; religious; reverend; sacred; sacrosanct; sainted; sanctified; scenic; shocking; sizable; solemn; spacious; spiritual; splendid; startling; stately; striking; stupendous; sublime; supereminent; terrible; terrific; tremendous; uncanny; unspeakable; untouchable; unutterable; vast; venerable; voluminous; weighty; weird; worshipful