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Example sentences for: aback

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Clearly the scene is scripted, but Aimee does a good job acting taken aback.
We were quite taken aback when various members of this other family brought gifts and graduation cards for our daughter ...
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.
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.
Even people who follow the literature on Hitler may be taken aback at the mass of absurdity patiently evaluated here.