back door
Example Sentences
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Pushing our chairs back, we both grabbed our bonnets, blathered something to Mrs. Drysdale about getting some fresh air, and skittered out the back door.
From Literature
"I keep the back door locked at all times," she said, adding she keeps the key out of the way of her children because she's "petrified" they'll leave the door open.
From BBC
He then tried to force entry via the front and back door but was unable to get back inside.
From BBC
The feature that annoys me the most is the “check the back seat” alarm that goes off whenever I exit the car, having placed anything in the back, or simply having opened the back door.
But the realization that anyone who came through the back door would know how we’d scored in the previous academic quarter meant that no one could doubt what my parents expected of us.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
