take aback
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Once safely across the Atlantic, the American Trader, under special orders from the U. S. State Department, was to take aboard stranded U.S. citizens, get them home with all speed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Auxiliary engines were not to be used, and contestants would solemnly swear to take aboard no supplies during the crossing.
From Time Magazine Archive
To man its expanding fleet, the Navy will take aboard 29,000 additional men, increasing its complement to 649,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Exodus' captain, Bernard Marks of Cincinnati, refused to take aboard a landing party and headed his ship out to sea again.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was the kind of surgery that even experienced Star Surgeons preferred to take aboard the hospital ships, or back to Hospital Earth, where the finest equipment and the most skilled assistants were available.
From Star Surgeon by Nourse, Alan Edward
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