back entrance

NOUN

back door

Synonyms

STRONGEST

side door

WEAK

back stairs back way escape hatch indirect access means of entry postern postern door secret exit secretive or illicit method trap door trapdoor wormhole

Example Sentences

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"If we have a problem, we have a back entrance so we can run out that way," he added.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2025

Katerina and dozens of employees escaped out the back entrance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2025

The plumbing company’s back entrance is on Detroit Avenue.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2023

For hearings in the case, her wife would drive them to a handicapped stall near the back entrance of a downtown Honolulu courthouse in a black Rolls-Royce.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2022

To get there you went out the back entrance, and down the narrow twisting path, pushing past the overgrown bracken that, in the early autumn, would still be blocking your way.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

back entrance

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