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Example sentences for: aback

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Upon arrival from Europe, now more than two decades ago, I was taken aback by the level of violence in the American media.
Clearly the scene is scripted, but Aimee does a good job acting taken aback.
But even Chatterbox was taken aback at the virulence of some of Nixon's comments on the new tapes--which, sadly, are not available either in audio or in transcript form on the Web.
Even people who follow the literature on Hitler may be taken aback at the mass of absurdity patiently evaluated here.
So I went into a shop selling ladies' lingerie and asked for Damenhosen . The girl behind the counter seemed slightly taken aback, and when she came and dangled some lacy panties before my eyes, I was taken aback too.