Sentence examples for slightly took from inspiring English sources

I was pleased to be informed of the writer's "rip-roaring affair" with a genitally challenged Polish countess on page 115, so much so that to learn, twelve pages later, of his "rip-roaring affair" with Betty — ennobled, in her way, by "the tiniest waist and great big breasts" — slightly took the edge off my delight.

Mr. Bush looked slightly taken aback.

I'm slightly taken aback.

He looks slightly taken aback by the question.

I'm slightly taken aback when he agrees.

Slightly, takes the edge off being the fastest in practise.

He seemed slightly taken aback by an answer he didn't appear to have expected.

I was slightly taken aback, but also impressed with her audacity.

Baumbach was slightly taken aback by his mother's recollection of the staircase incident.

I am very much one of them, slightly taken aback by the intensity of my admiration.

I'm slightly taken aback at his honesty, though his tally is in the right ballpark.