Verb (used with object), : He often uses that imperious scowl to overawe his subordinates.    From Dictionary.com. 

The desolateness of the place overawed my young heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

They spoke, in whispers, overawed by the fearlessness of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

But the few stuttering replies show how overawed they remain.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life In Exile] Reference

The girl, too, had been overawed by the dignity of his mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

Mary with a keen eye, to see if she were dazzled and overawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference

But, like everyone else, I was overawed by the sheer size of it.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We Can't Back Down'] Reference

People of clear views were overawed by want of confidence in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The rebuke fell flat, nor were the theologians one whit overawed by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference

Mr. Shanks promised to obey, and retired overawed by all he had seen and heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference

The minister Yang Huo overawed his master, and once even threw him into prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference

Never before had Eustace and Nesta felt so shut in -- so pinned down and overawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queensland Cousins] Reference

The mob, overawed by his aspect as well as by his words, paused in their mad career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

Judges and jury were overawed by the popular demonstration, and the bishops were acquitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

By the utter simplicity, by the nakedness of his designs, he arrested and overawed attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from Poe] Reference

Inside the carriage Leonard and Marjorie were suddenly overawed by a strange, delicious shyness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Days The Story of a War Marriage] Reference

Nanny and Sammy followed their mother's instructions without a murmur; indeed, they were overawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference

Agents had so overawed the people that few dared acknowledge themselves as champions of law and order.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

They seemed for the time overawed by the energy of the spirit which had suddenly sprung up among them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

When Demeter arrived at the house a radiant light suddenly illumined her, which circumstance so overawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference

She thought she must be a sad "'fraid-cat" to be overawed by such a little personage as the new governess.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governess] Reference

You overawed, browbeat and insulted the man and those who were assisting and protecting him in his distress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference

One is not so much alarmed as overawed; one feels so helpless, so insignificant; you know you can do nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

Chicken Little was overawed at the prospect of writing to a strange man, but she was very eager to help Alice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

She looked so elegant, so superior that the village women, accustomed to their rural simplicity, felt overawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference

One look from the mystic eyes of the High Priestess overawed her, and she shielded her face with her mantle of black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

Her Majesty was not overawed, however, and expressly declared to her mother that she ascended the throne without alarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference

"We do not consider ourselves in safety in an assemblage controlled and overawed by bullies, imported for that purpose.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

With all power gathered in his hands, he overawed all opposition and dissent by the wholesale slaughters of the guillotine.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Here the beholder falters, and his spirit is overawed as in a dream, while he contemplates the power and grandeur of the Creator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference

He rose, and opened the door for her to pass out, and Miss Prissy, overawed by the stately gravity of his manner, went out in silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference

Accordingly the cavalry ran over the estates and forced and overawed many Negroes into respecting the law on the north side of the island.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference