ABACK in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for ABACK, such as:

1. The question took Jurgis aback.
2. Chichikov was greatly taken aback.
3. I was taken aback by the news of his death.
4. I was a little taken aback at the directness of the question.
5. Arkady was taken aback, and did not at once understand Katya.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABACK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
aback
 ad.  by surprise; behind; in the rear
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Scarlett was taken aback, for she never liked to think of that dream.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
2  Maybe he DID kick me, and I didn't observe it, I was so taken all aback with his brow, somehow.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
3  The question took Jurgis aback.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
4  My resistance was so entirely unexpected that Covey seemed taken all aback.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  And he was too much taken aback to form one clear thought in his upper consciousness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
6  Never have I seen my friend more completely taken aback than by the cabman's reply.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
7  "Now, Watson, confess yourself utterly taken aback," said he.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
8  Sherlock Holmes's face showed that he was thoroughly taken aback by this new development.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
9  But both his Excellency, the Public Prosecutor, and Chichikov were too taken aback to reply.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
10  Chichikov was greatly taken aback.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
11  That being so," said Chichikov, taken aback, "I beg to agree to the price in question.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
12  Arkady was taken aback, and did not at once understand Katya.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  I might have known that he would never help me out; but it took me aback to have to shape the question afresh, as if it were quite new.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVI
14  Mr. Peggotty, taken aback, looked from Mrs. Gummidge to me, and from me to Mrs. Gummidge, as if he had been awakened from a sleep.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
15  The others, taken aback by his rude speech, could find nothing to say.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
Example Sentence:
1  I was taken aback by the news of his death.
2  I was a little taken aback at the directness of the question.
3  We were a little taken aback, at just the sheer quantity of the shift in behaviour in regards to digital and online.