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Example sentences for "back door"

  • From back door to back door, however, it was less than two hundred paces.

  • He stole into Lanier's back door to return the civilian suit and recover the cavalry blouse and trousers left hanging in Rafferty's room.

  • At this moment they heard pounding on Marsh's back door.

  • I had a theory," explained, Marsh, "and what you say about the back door clinches it.

  • By this time they had reached the back door, and after a silent handshake, Marsh slipped quietly down the rear stairs, then through the alley to Addison Street, where he boarded an elevated train and went home.

  • Then sudden, as she was going away to t' back door, she turns and says, 'My!

  • Then do thou run out o' t' back door, and I'll howd him tight, and thou can poise him behind as much as thou like.

  • The townsfolk, on learning of this outrage, were infuriated, and soon an armed mob more than two thousand strong besieged the house and the Ambassador, “who had gone in by a back door.

  • The spies posted around Madame d’Entragues’s house were more observant, and one of them at once hurried off to inform the Duc de Guise that they had just seen a young Knight of the Ordre du Saint-Esprit enter the house by a back door.

  • Then he heard Benson open and shut the back door; then Benson in the yard; and then Benson's voice in a muttered and irritable growl, talking to himself, as he stamped around on the ground.

  • Jimmie Dale stole forward across the yard, mounted the three steps of the low stoop at Spider Jack's back door, and tried the door cautiously.

  • Back door or no back door, someone will see you sneaking in or out.

  • Her cottage is not fifty paces away from our back door.

  • Fectnor was one of those who had trod that path through the mesquite to Sylvia's back door in the days which were ended.

  • I do not forget that path which led from Sylvia's back door down to the Rio Grande, nor the men who traversed it; yet I believe that she spoke from her heart, and that her words were essentially true.

  • There were also rumors of drinking and gambling orgies in the house under the mesquite-tree, and people said that many strange customers traversed that path through the mesquite, and entered Little's back door.

  • I have a back door already, I will henceforth be busie, Secretary, run and keep the door.

  • If it please your Grace, there's a back door.

  • If Panama is turning the entire Pacific into a front door instead of a back door, then British Columbia knows the coign of vantage, which she holds as an outlet for half Canada's commerce by way of the Pacific.

  • Consider Japan first: Panama is turning every port facing west into a front door instead of a back door.

  • Commercially Panama simply turns British Columbia into a front door, instead of a back door.

  • How can Panama turn the Pacific Coast into a front door instead of a back door?

  • I must come by his blood, through his flesh, or I cannot come at all, for here is no back door.

  • There is a back door, is there, to the kitchen?

  • I was there approximately 3 minutes before I saw this man come out the back door here.

  • I knew likewise the Cardinal to be a man that supposed everybody had a back door.

  • She replied that she had watched Mrs. Bunning out of her house from amongst the bushes in St. Lawrence churchyard, and had then slipped in at Bunning's back door, being absolutely determined to see him.

  • Such a person could easily enter the Bunnings' back door with an absolutely minimum risk of detection.

  • On its west side there is a back door to the bank house; another into Bunning's rooms on the basement of the Moot Hall; a third into the Police Office, also in that basement; a fourth into the rear of Dr.

  • From behind beer cases and kegs, whisky barrels, wagons, corners of small houses, one could have taken a shot at him; or from a window or back door.

  • Morgan slipped softly from his concealment, coming out at Peden's back door.

  • Across the street from Peden's back door was a large vacant piece of ground, a wilderness of cans, bottles, packing boxes, broken barrels.

  • And there she was, big as life, sauntering up the path toward the Captain's back door.

  • He cleared it with one leap and disappeared from sight in the direction of Aunt Cal's back door.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "back door" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    back and; back before; back door; back from; back here; back home; back yard; backed chairs; backed gull; backed thrush; backward glance; can remember; conference committee; fifth century; full gilt; import duties; lemme tell; lovely face; monstrous size; quarter ounce; sell their; sent him; singular number; small river; then says; until after