back door

Example Sentences

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“My attitude when I came to this town was if you can’t get in through the front door, go in the back door,” Leno said.

From Los Angeles Times

After a December 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., the Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to compel Apple to build a universal back door into the iPhone.

From The Wall Street Journal

I hid my net behind a big lilac bush in Grandma’s front yard, walked around the house, and came in through the back door.

From Literature

I gathered all the skeins and tangles and bits of gold that I could find, wrapped them in a rag, and ran out the back door.

From Literature

Rudra Bahadur Kami returned to Nepal through a back door of Kathmandu airport in a battered coffin after working for more than a decade in Saudi Arabia to feed his family back home.

From Barron's