How to Use starstruck in a Sentence

starstruck

adjective

• She stared at him in starstruck awe.
• I know she's famous, but try not to act starstruck when you meet her.
• Matthew even played Madden–as himself, of course–with the starstruck boys.
  — Jeff Risdon, Lions Wire, 25 Dec. 2019
• Gruber has a sort of starstruck religious awe as the steel fortress swings open.
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• Nick asks, but Richardson and her pals are much too starstruck to offer him any kind of reply.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2023
• Late in the episode, Bill is accosted by two starstruck drunks while helping Seth, Sol, and Charlie build the store.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
• Gargis worked the first two camps as a counselor, and was as starstruck as many of the younger participants.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 2 July 2021
• Brothers in satire My awards season starstruck moment? Mel Brooks.
  — Stacey Wilson Hunt, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2020
• And people seemed to be incredibly starstruck to see her in return.
  — Rebecca Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
• Frank, who joined New Amsterdam in season 4, said the rest of the cast wasn't too starstruck seeing Matlin walking around on set.
  — Breanne L. Heldman, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2022
• But for one starstruck 14-year-old boy, the brief interaction almost 25 years ago was life-changing.
  — Lisa Fung, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2021
• On the other end, her starstruck husband quickly banged out some vintage Rodgers guitar licks on his own rig back home.
  — August Brown, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Wearing a yellow Lego store apron, Sheeran can be seen in the video handling the store's merchandise and signing toys for starstruck fans.
  — USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• Rifkin is clearly not starstruck, though he is clearly wowed by having been able to interview Ringo Starr.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• He was billed as a celebrity coach and interacted with starstruck young athletes.
  — USA Today, 23 Dec. 2020
• One contestant even left the stoic Offerman a bit starstruck.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
• The pair met up backstage to pose for a photo together: Swift, ready to take the stage in her sparkly Lover bodysuit, put her arm around Ulven, who looked somewhat starstruck.
  — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 25 June 2023
• The rapper’s lawyer, Bradford Cohen, was the first to suggest that the technician was too starstruck to keep his professionalism in order.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2023
• There were the motorcycle cops, looking important, and a fancy van to shepherd the press, and a gathering crowd that seemed half starstruck, half confused.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2020
• O’Connor, who has rubbed shoulders with Hollywood A-listers and never gets starstruck, almost chickened out.
  — Tommie Ethington, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2021
• During her ‘Bama jaunt, Del Rey’s left a trail of sweetly starstruck fans, autographs and fans’ selfies, smartphone videos and social media posts in her wake.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 23 July 2023
• The Golden Globes rightfully takes a lot of guff for being so starstruck and so susceptible to fancy campaign tactics.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
• The California native seems to have permanent traces of Presley’s southern drawl in his own speaking voice, even during a starstruck moment on the Globes stage.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023
• This seems to be her current strategy: to frustrate the media’s more abject and starstruck appetites by ceding the platform to those whose struggles are otherwise erased.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 27 Dec. 2019
• The result, which uses assorted data as proof of Clift’s legacy, is more than the usual series of starstruck talking-head reminiscences.
  — Armond White, National Review, 22 June 2022
• Even first round clubhouse leader Lydia Ko admitted to being somewhat starstruck just seeing Sorenstam do her stuff.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 26 Feb. 2021
• While Foster’s study of wormholes and her starstruck romance with Thor (Chris Hemsworth) was a solid place to start, further films didn’t allow her character to grow alongside her superhero counterpart.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024