Taken aback, I stared at the young warrior for a moment, then, recovering composure, I translated for Nick what he had just told me.
Masham, taken aback to find himself thus attacked by a small boy who seemed to come from nowhere, recoiled for an instant before his vigorous onslaught.
If some one had informed him he was to start in five minutes for the North Pole, he could not have looked more amazed or taken aback.
When pretty Mrs. Crofton had told Radmore that she had taken a house at Beechfield, he had been very much surprised and taken aback.
Now Timmy had never seen his mother cry--and she herself was very much taken aback.
To pay a yacht off on the desired tack when weighing the anchor, by arranging the sails so as to be taken aback.
A sail is said to be taken aback, when its forward surface is acted upon by the wind.
B2] be taken aback, stop in one’s tracks due to surprise.
For an instant he was sotaken aback that he did not speak.
The Vicomte, taken aback by his daughter's presumption, could only stare.
Taken aback, Michel replied: "Why, from seeing you here, after the affair.
With a hasty movement the chauffeur, taken aback by the sight of a woman rising unexpectedly on the lonely road, made a dash at his brakes.
DOLLY (taken aback, recovers her good humor after a long breath and says sweetly).
McCOMAS (taken aback, but rallying his humor to meet the emergency).
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taken aback" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
