back door

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“We think of this as having a bouncer at the front door looking at what’s coming in, and then another bouncer at the back door being like, ‘Well, what’s going out?’”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

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

After a December 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., the Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to compel Apple to build a universal back door into the iPhone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 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

We lived in the kitchen wall, and our back door was a crack in the plaster nobody had noticed since the days of the Dutch.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck