back stairs

Example Sentences

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Instead, they were directed through the kitchen and up the back stairs.

From Washington Post • Jul. 10, 2021

One day she “snuck down the back stairs into the testosterone zone,” she told The Democrat and Chronicle, and, only slightly intimidated, approached Mr. Felker, an editor there.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2020

Then I'd walk up the back stairs, give her a kiss and she'd take off. leaving me on the stage to start singing.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2018

In the 1970s, David Letterman baby-sat her children and Jay Leno slept on the back stairs of her Sunset Strip club, where Jim Carrey later tended the door.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2018

“You all mind Caddy, then. When they are done, bring them up the back stairs, Dilsey.”

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner