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Sentence Examples So there we were with our slinky little dresses, sashaying across the stage singing religious music and I think it just took the world aback. I stood still at the window, taken aback by the passion of the outburst as much as the completely unexpected words. He was also taken aback because he felt the PR consultant was maligning someone who was dead. Alyssa blinked her heavily mascaraed eyes at my short friend, clearly taken aback. He seemed a little taken aback by that, and thereafter completely ignored her instructions. She tried to sound casual, as if she really didn't care if he were talking to her or not, hoping he'd be taken aback. As she rounds a bend in the path, she stops suddenly, taken aback by the view of a cascade of clear, blue water tumbling from atop a small cliff. We were certainly unfortunate not to have taken any cognizance of it before hand, otherwise, we would have not been taken aback. People in England are aware of the divide, but the extent of it took me aback. I was taken aback by that and answered with a question that has been bugging me. Frank regains consciousness, and is taken aback to find that he is handcuffed to his hospital bed. I watched them both, a little taken aback, as Von Rogoff and Herr Lindstrom made clockwork conversation. She watches the men clasp hands, again taken aback by a display of obvious affection for her father. He sat among the children and pacified one agitated four year old who was taken aback by all the attention he was receiving. But it is surprising that both the Pentagon and the American public seem to have been taken aback by the hit-and-run attacks. Alex looked mildly taken aback at my overeager response and raised his eyebrows. Taken aback by the teenager's precociousness, the police chiefs sent him away to do a law degree first. Thankfully there were no other people in the room to be snottily disdainful, but Naomi looked a little taken aback. He seemed a little taken aback, sat and listened with fur bristling, one hand stroking the back of the other. Mara looks very much taken aback, she steels her jaw, inhales sharply and stomps off in a strop. Show More Sentences He was obviously expecting a more vehement denial and was taken aback when I laughed at him. I think the dermatologist I visited for the first time was a little taken aback at my forthcomingness. From what I gathered, it was his mum on the line, and he seemed really taken aback at what she had to say. Now he could look right through the tiny window over the roof, on to the tree-tops aback of the house. The two started down the dusty road and John was quick to follow, but his father's words pulled him aback. The wind came now from this side, now from that, determined to catch the sails aback. When a sloop is hove to she is stopped in the water by her foresail being sheeted aback, on the windward side. I was taken aback by his sudden mood change and shifted in the leather seat uncomfortably. He was so taken aback by the incident that he notified the local press in Donegal about it. I was a little taken aback by her use of the familiar term but I recovered quickly. Everyone at our table was taken aback at his rudeness toward a paying customer. The consul was present at the Supreme Court hearing, and I think she was taken aback and shocked by what she heard. When you go to such a place, you are taken aback by the youthfulness of the crowd. Anyone driving down Shaw Road this summer might have been taken aback by a dazzling floral display. She was a bit taken aback to hear the slight quaver in her father's voice as he replied. Paul was taken aback by the fatherly protective instincts that seemed to well up from deep inside him. So we were taken aback the other day when an email we had sent to a York PR firm bounced back, accompanied by a strict admonishment. The British were taken aback by the enemy ship's apparent burst of speed, but they soon discovered the trick and began kedging themselves. Alex, who'd dragged me up here to see what he was so excited about seeing himself, was taken aback. Perhaps he had expected to find her still a compliant little girl, but he seemed visibly taken aback by her anger. Show More Sentences Instead of being taken aback, he felt a perverse obstinacy rise up inside him. I know about than the preposition vs. than the introducer of elliptical clauses, but this example took me aback. Jordan was taken aback for a moment before he undid his seatbelt and leant over to his mother to wrap her in his embrace. He was taken aback by the sheer number of places they had found containing such wretched people. The leader of the monks was taken aback, but quickly regained his composure. Again Alexandria laughed at his young ways, but still was taken aback at the beautiful regality she saw in the golden-haired youth. Listen to children when they speak and you'll be taken aback by the throw-away phrases that lard every conversation. She shrank back in her seat, taken aback by the tightly leashed violence in his tone. I was very much taken aback by his anti-intellectual comments on the Irish language. The ship was taken aback and thrown on her beam ends, in which situation she remained two hours. He was taken aback, particularly given the youthful resources at Magath 's disposal, by the extent to which both had tinkered with successful squads. But it was the theatrical brutality of the piece that took me aback. This has always put Arabs aback, made them vulnerable and eager to avoid uncalculated escalation. Jones, the face of the burgeoning organization, has been taken aback by the acceleration of interest. He struggled as television crews tried to mike him up for sound and seemed taken aback when delegates asked him for an autograph. When people see you bald for the first time, they are a little taken aback, so earrings give them something to focus on. Taken aback, toothpaste dribbling down my chin, I stood there befuddled, not quite sure what to do next. She was taken aback when he smiled and bowed his head to her. I was taken aback by his question for a second before I recomposed myself. Carrie withered her, and for a second Stevie was taken aback. Show More Sentences He was a little taken aback by her question but quickly recovered himself. A heavyset woman in the rough shapeless dress of a common country woman came out of the house as they approached, looking rather taken aback by them all. Asked why she often played somewhat unsympathetic characters like Em, or Mackenzie in The Newsroom, Mortimer seemed taken aback. They were taken aback when he talked back in fluent Bhojpuri! Still, when I saw the menu of latkes the different vendors offered, I was a bit taken aback. Leanne was rather taken aback by her mistress's comment, but nodded. Nevertheless, I was momentarily taken aback by this packaging revelation. I was taken aback to read the rather slanted and unbalanced coverage of the debate on the issue of protected structures in last week's issue of the Weekender. Everyone, including the movers of the motions, was taken aback by the vote at April's conference of the AUT lecturers' union to boycott certain universities. One of those preachers admitted to The Daily Beast that he was taken aback by her zeal. Even Bernhard was taken aback by the vehemence of the response. He looked taken aback by my brusqueness, but quickly shrugged it off. Watching the chefs at work was fascinating too although I was a bit taken aback to note that they lick their fingers and serving spoons as they plate up the food. Saavy handicappers and fantasy football players do all the research they can to keep up, but everyone's been taken aback by the game-day inactive list at one point or another. Part of the initial problem was that there were pockets of people who had different views, and some people were taken aback by what they were saying. I can understand how he feels, I'm taken aback, to say the least, by this fierce display of fighting ability that I never imagined Milon capable of. Without a location scout to forewarn me, during the two weeks I spent touring around the country I was certainly taken aback by Morocco's diversity. For that reason one is amused rather than taken aback by a Flemish diptych of the turn of the fifteenth century from the Catharijneconvent in Utrecht. Peter holds the jib aback until our bow swings across the wind. I was taken aback, and then I remembered that she was a retired electrologist. Show More Sentences And while many of us might be a little taken aback if Mom showed up at our offices, Secrist is utterly nonplussed, even happy about it. I was taken aback to read the letter on February 7 addressing the comparative roles of dieticians and nutritionists. She was not taken aback to find he lived in a ramshackle log hut among the trees. As the anchor fetches her up, she will swing head to wind, bringing the head sails aback. His designs, featuring two Arabic words transliterated as 'Basmala' and 'Kafhayainsad', have taken the audience aback. Frank was taken aback when Lisa told him that she also needed forgiveness from him, for actions, for words, and for unspoken thoughts. Then the sails on the mainmast were backing and we started getting stern way. Eagle was caught aback. They haven't seen humans for years, so when a small expedition, led by Jason Clarke, stumbles into apetopia, both sides are taken aback. But even these metalcore beach bums from Byron Bay, New South Wales, were taken aback by the scenes that greeted them on the opening night of their whistle-stop UK tour. In a way, he was taken aback by the absence of discouragement. She was a little taken aback to find the front door of heavy oak unlocked. Zervas was rather taken aback to learn that Ares Veloutiotes, the communist leader, was on his way to the village because there was no friendship between them. They were unfamiliar with the use of troops mounted on horses as shock troops, and were taken aback when mounted Spanish soldiers continually charged at them. As Bruce was somewhat taken aback by this turn in the nonversation, as a witty friend used to term the appropriately uneven match of social skills, he simply asked why. I would rather board a hundred of the enemy's frigates, than steer my boat into a fleet of modest women, for a modest woman never fails to take me aback. Examples from Classical Literature This discovery knocked us all aback, and we were quite at a loss how to proceed. It took her aback by its directness, and for a moment left her without an answer. To bagpipe the mizen is to lay it aback, by bringing the sheet to the mizen-shrouds. The midshipman went to sleep, and when he awoke he found the ship all aback. The Captain was taken aback by these three words, which Mr. Blood had stressed. I knew that the gentility of the knock had taken both her and her mother aback. It was my first experience of heckling, and for the moment I was taken aback. For a moment Stratton was taken aback by the unexpectedness of the question. You can see now why, when I thought that tintype was his, I was so took aback. In a few minutes she yawed to starboard, and the main-sail was taken aback. Then Sir Launcelot drew his sword and put the stroke aback, and clave his head unto the paps. My resistance was so entirely unexpected that Covey seemed taken all aback. He is sorely taken aback, too, by the dutiful behaviour of his nephew and has a woeful consciousness upon him of being a scapegrace. His wife, taken aback, started up and gave him a thwack on the back. Philip was taken aback to find that most of them reminded him either of Henley or of Swinburne. For a single instant the procurator fiscal seemed a little taken aback. Well, when you consider that, can you wonder I was set all aback? The picture went viral after being shared on Reddit on Monday and Emmet was taken aback by how popular it was. I certainly took him aback, and he almost dropped the glass. First of all I was taken aback by what seemed to me the clumsiness of his technique. Show More Sentences When he tried to come nearer her she laughed and thrust him aback. Much taken aback, McWha glanced about the room with a loutish grin. Maybe he did kick me, and I didn't observe it, I was so taken all aback with his brow, somehow. They were a good deal taken aback, and after a little consultation one and all tumbled down the fore companion, thinking no doubt to take us on the rear. Martha looked rather taken aback but she looked pleased, too. I'd gone out pike fishing, bless you, never thinking of a trout, and when I saw that whopper on the end of my line, blest if it didn't quite take me aback. Find more words! 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