back door
Example Sentences
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Gil hustled to the back of the store, opened the back door to the encampment, and called out to the entire population.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
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 • Feb. 16, 2026
He then tried to force entry via the front and back door but was unable to get back inside.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
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 The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
I could already hear the brook calling to me through the back door screen.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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